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An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"

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The talk I released today is called "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable". It's the most personal talk I've given, in that it was driven by my own motivations as opposed to someone else's. Every talk is for an audience, and it's the speaker's responsibility to say what the audience needs to hear. "Inventing on Principle" was given to a roomful of software engineering students, and I spoke about things that I hoped would resonate with software engineering students. Likewise when speaking to people involved with computer art tools, or with data visualization tools. I certainly believe in the ideas presented, but the intent is always to influence a particular set of people with a particular set of interests. This can, understandably, mislead people about my own interests, or my "field". I can be goaded into writing about programming, but that doesn't mean that "programming" is what I consider myself to be working on. It might just mean that I'm easily goaded. (Well, what it really means is

An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" Bret Victor / May 28, 2013 The talk I released today is called " Media for Thinking the Unthinkable ". It's the most personal talk I've given, in that it was driven by my own motivations as opposed to someone else's. Every talk is for an audience, and it's the speaker's responsibility to say what the audience needs to hear. " Inventing on Principle " was given to a roomful of software engineering students, and I spoke about things that I hoped would re

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