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'''Notes on Alan Kay's & Adele Golberg's''' '''''Personal Dynamic Media <span style="color:red">(1977)</span>'''''

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* '''Dynabook''': a vision of the 'true' personal computer ~ modern laptops/notebooks today
* ''Although thinking goes on in one's head, external media serve to materialize thoughts and, through feedback, to augment the actual paths the thinking follows.''
* Human interaction with classic media (newspapers, television, movies,...) > primarily passive (one-way: media to receiver) -> static
* ''Every message is, in one sense or another, a simulation of some idea. The essence of a medium is very much dependent on the way messages are embedded, changed and viewed'' ((and vice versa?) ~ McLuhan)
* Computer as metamedium > true interaction between user and medium (two-way: media to user and vice versa)
* kids as the initial goal user group (fun!)
* interim Dynabook: use of Smalltalk programming language
* Description of characteristics/functions/examples:
*: Output devices
*: Input devices (mouse: ~ Bootstrapping!)
*: Applications (painting, drawing, filing, editing, animation, music ..)
*: Fonts (~ text quality, moods, effects, eyecandy,...)
* High expectations for the use/development of the Dynabook
** problematics of accessibility/usergroup focus: would it get too versatile/accessible/felxible and destroy itself as a useable, democratic medium?
*: -> matter of communication/feedback: give users the chance to describe their desires for a specific tool
*: -> provide an implemented set of standard tools so people can use the medium immediately