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January 2015

Physical identity and persistence

by Bret Victor

[ramble] [read at your own risk] [what is this] physical identity

[Stream-of-thought, trying to figure out something out at the end of a long tiring day....

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[pulling this from the drafts folder, written a week ago] After rereading Craig's...

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Reading http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk.html...

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(Forgot to mention the point, which was The entire system is transparent...

“Escaping-the-rectangle stuff” refers to Escaping the tiny rectangle (2014).

Regarding the distinction between "speech-like" and "writing-like", see Ong's Orality and Literacy.

The description of the Smalltalk demo is from Kay's Early History of Smalltalk. The Hutchins quote is from Cognition in the Wild.

Discussion:

Glen Chiacchieri

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I just want to say that I like these journal things we've been doing, and I hope...

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******** reminds me of this scene in the Matrix. While searching for the...

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Maybe McLuhan's "hot" (speech-like) and "cold" (writing-like)...

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On Feb 1, 2015, at 11:17 PM, Bret Victor wrote: One of the interesting things...

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Music is another kind of collective experience worthy of looking at: a real-time...

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On Feb 1, 2015, at 11:17 PM, Bret Victor wrote: As the Room project progresses, I...

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