November 2015
Climate Change
by Bret Victor
An extensive essay about what technologists can do about climate change.
In form, an attempt to make a fully show-and-tell piece of writing, where every single assertion shows an example or links to a citation, and every proposal shows a newly-designed demo or links to a reference.
Includes Autocompleting facts (2015).
Some making of:
10/02/15
Bret Victor
draaaaaaaaft
Hi. I'm writing a thing about climate change. I don't know why I thought I...
11/17/15
Bret Victor
draft 2
Ok, it's been a rough trip, but time to start backing this truck into the driveway....
11/23/15
Bret Victor
draft 3
Final draft: http://worrydream.com/TechnologistsAndClimateChange/3/ (Will live...
Prompted Robert's Hyperbind (2015).
Also prompted a kind of crisis which ultimately led to Dynamicland:
12/02/15
Alan Kay
Real web authoring?
Hi Bret Various members of CDG (especially including you) -- and elsewhere --...
12/03/15
Bret Victor
Re: Real web authoring?
Hi Alan, I agree that it's a problem, and a very obvious problem. I...
12/04/15
Alan Kay
Re: Real web authoring?
Hi Bret Sounds very good to me! Go for it. (I made a similar declaration in 1968...
Alan's chiding about not making a proper authoring system would eventually be addressed by making Page Layout Kit (2023) to make Progress report (2022), and making Archive Kit (2022) to make the entire Dynamicland website (2024).