The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI
i wonder what&#x27;s today&#x27;s equivalent to this pionnering technologies...<p>biotech gene editing ? quantum computers ? artificial intelligence ? Cars ?<p>Is there someone somewhere discovering the ubiquitous usage of the next decades ? Does computer science still has the potential to bring the same kind of world-changing tools ?<p>Here&#x27;s something i&#x27;d like to ask AlanKay : at that time, you probably had the feeling that you were working on groundbreaking technologies, but what were the magazines saying ? I&#x27;m pretty sure some people were thinking that computers were going to play a role, but was this obvious to everyone ? Did people hesitate between funding CS and, say, flying cars ?