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

Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture covers his career at Xerox PARC and how to think about inventing the future. He goes through what came out of PARC and why companies fail to capitalize on such ideas.

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Why HN readers recommended it

It is HN's standard answer to questions on creativity, finding problems and PARC history, valued for Kay's thinking about thinking.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Stanford Online
Topic
inventing the future
Format
lecture
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
16
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • 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?

  • I don't think pg intended that crazy new ideas require someone to be a domain expert, just some expertise. Slight wording difference. In the case of music, one could have domain expertise on audio files, compression and domain expertise about file sharing and domain expertise …

    matt_s on Hacker News · 2021-05
    In Crazy New Ideas

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