Alan Kay: Learning to See
All of Alan’s speeches are packed with “aha!” moments. This one is no disappointment…
I thought the ending was especially profound:
Every human being is born with the potential to learn to see… with their hearts, bodies, spirits, and minds, and to learn to be… vividly alive and human…
Our great gift is that, though we are the stuff that dreams are made of, we can invest those dreams with the clearer knowledge brought by careful study beyond our simple prejudices.
There is nothing more powerful than imagination coupled with investigation. Imagination allows us to dream and conceive of better futures for us all. Investigation finds the powers and knowledge to make better futures happen.
So I think my advice to our species would be: “We can’t learn to see until we admit we are blind”.
In other words, let us learn how to wake up from the slumbers of our nervous system, culture, and beliefs, [and] try to find out what is going on and what is really needed.
The full transcript is available at forbes.com
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@SeanDenigris Imagigation = imagination and investigation