Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:54:56 -0800
From: Bret Victor
Subject: IMPs and dynamic conversations
I keep thinking about this video from 1972 where Bob Kahn performs a live animation to explain the structure of the arpanet

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(if the subject matter is interesting, the full video is here, I just extracted the juicy Bob bits)

It's kind of mind-blowing.  What has gone wrong such that a guy with a piece of chalk and an eraser can knock the pants off of Keynote.  Even Ken Perlin's cyber-chalk isn't near this level of improvisational fluidity and expressiveness, let alone... omg, is Bob pointing to his diagram with his hands?  Is he pointing to two things at once?  what sorcery is this