-----Original Message----- From: edu-sig-bounces@python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Kirby Urner Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:31 PM To: edu-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Python as Application
There's nothing to stop academia from commenting upon, debating, field testing Alan Kay's ideas. Just because he's sometimes behind a corporate podium (Xerox, Atari, HP, Apple, Disney) instead of a university one doesn't impress me much, given the highly permeable membrane between private think tanks, research companies, and graduate schools.
And family entertainment companies and consumer electronic companies and fast food restaurant chains. And there are no lines to be drawn anywhere? Putting aside the question of whether my concerns are well founded or not, do you see anything to my sense of things that part of the disruption of disruptive technologies has been to move this line significantly beyond where it has once been drawn? Just curious. Art