Alan Kay on Inventing the Future and Xerox PARC

Stanford Online · Lecture · 58 min · 2017 · YouTube title: How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Why it's here

It is HN's standard answer to questions on creativity, finding problems and PARC history, valued for Kay's thinking about thinking.

What it covers

Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture covers his career at Xerox PARC and how to think about inventing the future. He goes through what came out of PARC and why companies fail to capitalize on such ideas.