Interview with Alan Kay
It seems like he's still stuck thinking about computers the way he was many years ago. Wikipedia <i>isn't</i> amazing because it doesn't have a WYSIWYG editor and can't run code on the (very few) pages where that's even applicable?<p>He doesn't seem to get that what makes the web amazing is the data and people connected to it. That's generally far more interesting to users than novel interfaces or whiz-bang features.<p>Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yelp, etc aren't <i>technically</i> all that interesting or innovative. They're infinitely more transformative than nearly all software that came before them though.