☞ Open-Ended Software as Human Beings - by Samuel Arbesman
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Douglas Adams on Hypercard + New Educational Models
☞ Open-Ended Software as Human Beings Douglas Adams on Hypercard + New Educational Models Samuel Arbesman Jan 09, 2023 19 5 Share A Hydra . HyperCard is one of my early loves as a computer program and computational tool for thought . For those who are familiar with HyperCard, which was bundled onto early Macintoshes, it needs no introduction. But for everyone else, here’s how I described it in an essay I wrote several years ago : Bill Atkinson, its developer, described HyperCard as “an erector set for building applications.” Simply put, you could build your own software using HyperCard, with e
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