Dear pals,
Here's an update from Dynamicland. This letter is a year late, at least, because I thought it needed to cover everything, fully, and there is just so much everything.
I just want you to understand, everything, fully. I want everyone to understand everything. That's literally all I want in life. It makes it difficult to report the "news". (As Alan might scare-quote it.)
It's also why there's no public presentation of Dynamicland yet. This thing is beyond my ability to present it. Presenting a "vision" is easy, you ask David for some drawings and then yearn at a camera for an hour. But once you actually manage to emigrate and go native... now what? The thought of mailing a tourist brochure back to the old country feels almost sickening.
I mean, we will anyway at some point, because the progress of science is driven by tourist brochures. But what you really want to do is start an immersion program, bring people over to study abroad, let it sink into their bones. And that's in the works — slowly, but it'll happen.
I'm getting ahead of myself.