[Something about Flickr's image filter (automatic, and I don't know there is a way to escape it or not. Might be there?) - makes is FUZZY. Original execution was cheap easy jot with Illustrator, so I don't have real good looking file...] So, the wording (and idea, thought) is - Multi-User Concurrent System or - Multi-User Concurrent Approach - Multi-User Concurrent Perspective (Or flip. Concurrent Multi-User Approach.) This might be better than Object something (Object Oriented Programming)... as a way to really communicate people about What kind of tools for what kind of process (learning, experience, etc) are aimed at, and possible, and worth trying. Giving people (magical?) name - words - such as OOP - probably miscapped - (placed wrong cap) - on people's minds about what they are really getting at. 'O I'm doing OOP...' - but why? for what? [In that sense, history of naming, Smalltalk, Squeak, OOP etc - aren't that great. They all could have had more plain descriptive, or 'right agenda' suggesting type of names. ] What's really worth trying? --- I watched whole 2 presentations by Alan Kay, and I can see - WHY computers are limited. (if a kid has to draw a circle, handwriting, etc, how we set kids free from IT etc - how to get most strong stuff in our minds - which can be good or difficult - problematic - and how you HANDLE them - with this IT - that helps - or that let us lose loose?...) It's basically one input one output relation. One thing we put in, then that gets returned. This cannot be 'scaled' in any way. Computer SWs and HWs will not really come to have 'algorithm' which would help us or mature us. It's a box returns very short 'next step' - for what we put in. but the whole point IT could help us (and worth trying) is *let us communicate better and stronger. Stronger is a weird word, but it's necessary - I feel. Let humans communicate better and stronger. That's one whole key point of IT. (Brains can interact better. Seeing each other's real content. Real force. And then might come to have real respect etc. That element is there in IT.) -- Too much of a citizen-straight-jacket? Powerful Ideas. But what's really powerful in each of us. And those powerful ideas. There can be contradictions and problems and issues. And they could raise (start) entire - series (or genre) of literature or music, art, etc, etc. They might even raise certain kind of natural science and social science - a perspective in - why we have to 'behave' - 'civilized' etc - and how that may go against our nature - some particular personal inclinations or talents - etc. What's really powerful within each of us as individual diversity. We know how fierce they can be. Then we got this IT tools and infras. Powerful ideas sound too much in a hurry to herd - group - all of us. It's kind of too early, hasty subscription.

The cover for the Teachers' Notes booklet for Philip Green Educational's Side Set S44. As much as technology offers new ways to communicate and express myself, without which I'd not have encountered some very valued friends & acquaintances, it seems more & more to offer additional opportunities for snooping, stress, error, social exclusion, non-communication, and terminal malfunction. I do actually miss the days when computers were a rarity, just a funny little flickering VDU box on the corner of your desk with bright green 'science fiction' font and a difuser net velcroed to the front which you occasionally used when you weren't actually talking, writing, handling paperwork or dealing with people face to face. You turned off with an old style rotary pot switch, and the last thing on your mind would've been to rush home and plug into some basic home-micro for more screen time. Now, computers have invaded every single aspect of our existence - some people are now no longer capable of even putting one foot in front of the other in the street unless they are hunched over some device or other, sending inane illiterate texts OR running some sort of 'app' they simply cannot live without... probably coaching them on how to walk [left, right...], breathe and take trite pretentious artless fake photographs without dribbling.... Just about the only thing some people don't yet do with micro-chips is stick them up their arse, and there is sure to be some specialist backwater website somewhere on just what size of iPonce hardware you can shove up your fundament with practise and the appropriate lubrication... That all probably sounds very miserable, but I'm a firm believer in technology as a tool, an enabler - a means to an end... not a constrainer or dictator, not as a substitute for human creativity, most definitely not a 'raison d'etre' as things like iPonce, Farcebollox and Twatter have rapidly and unnervingly become... It's not so much a case of Dean R. Koontz's 'Proteus' asking "When will you let me out of this box?" but more one of real people climbing into technological 'boxes' of their own making and ceasing to function in the real World... and that is very bizarre.