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How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Part two of Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture on inventing the future. He draws on his time at Xerox PARC and elsewhere to discuss how to think about new technology and what makes ideas useful.

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Creator / channel
Stanford Online
Topic
inventing the future
Format
lecture
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
13
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2024

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  • Yeah, I think you have a point. I'm not sure existing data is enough to generate ideas about all potential new products though, since behavior is shaped by what things/ideas/knowledge we have access to today. That is, what data is going to tell you that …

    mindcrime on Hacker News · 2018-08
    In Ask HN: Why is there still guessing involved in “Make something people want”?

  • I don't know that I can say I'm particularly good at this, but to the extent that I do have any original / good ideas, I think a big part of it is this: 1. Know at least a little bit, about a lot of …

    mindcrime on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In Ask HN: How do you come up with creative, original ideas?

  • Counterpoint is that they picked one thing (laser printing) out of the dozens of ideas coming out of PARC and capitalized on it to the point that they were found to be a monopoly [0] and forced to license their patents [1]. Watch Alan Kay's …

    matt_s on Hacker News · 2020-08
    In Ask HN: Other examples like “Kodak missed digitization” for presentations?

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