>* If you want to see what I mean, mute and scan forward in the video paying attention only to the slides. It's almost impossible to tell what this talk is trying to convey from the slides alone.*
That's why it's a speech and not a slideshow.
(Besides who said you HAVE to summurize the speech in the slides? You could use them as supplementary material, and have people pay attention to your speech as opposed to PowerPoint BS).
And it's a generic speach, not him presenting some paper etc. Have you seen his research work papers?
>* Smalltalk did everything better
Well, compared to most things we have today, especially JS, it really did.
>* Software was better in the 60s and 70s
No, but thinking about software was better. We got far more breakthroughs in those days compared to today -- and not just because they were "low hanging fruit".
That's why it's a speech and not a slideshow.
(Besides who said you HAVE to summurize the speech in the slides? You could use them as supplementary material, and have people pay attention to your speech as opposed to PowerPoint BS).
And it's a generic speach, not him presenting some paper etc. Have you seen his research work papers?
>* Smalltalk did everything better
Well, compared to most things we have today, especially JS, it really did.
>* Software was better in the 60s and 70s
No, but thinking about software was better. We got far more breakthroughs in those days compared to today -- and not just because they were "low hanging fruit".
>* Alan Kay really dislikes the web.
Who doesn't? Compared to what it could be?