Dynamic Medium
- thoughts prompted by Alan Kay and Bret Victor (Bret Victor's Thesis)
- computing right now seems to simulate old mediums (books/movies) instead of becoming its own medium
- Bret Victor says that dynamic medium is:
- computational (can simulate, calculate, etc...)
- responsive (responds to stimuli)
- connected (exchanges information)
- dynamic medium could be a great Cognitive Medium
Kay began to understand that what he wanted to create was an entirely new medium - a medium that would be fundamentally different from all the previous static media of history. This was going to be the first dynamic medium - a means of representing, communicating, and animating thoughts, dreams, and fantasies as well as words, images, and sounds.
— Tools For Thought ↗ - Howard Rheingold