To call Alan Kay brilliant is an understatement.
Kay, in case you're unfamiliar with his work, is a Turing Award winner who played an integral role in the development of object oriented programming. A highly respected computer scientist, Kay worked for many years at Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center and also did a stint as an Apple fellow in the company's Advanced Technology Group during the 80s and 90s.
The full extent of Kay's visionary prowess can be found in a 1972 research paper he wrote titled, "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages."
The research paper describes a device Kay dubbed the Dynabook, a no
