"Four Rivers of Computing": a personal syllabus for stealing pioneers' moves
threepointone · x · 2026-09-20
threepointone shares "Four Rivers of Computing," a personal syllabus whose point isn't learning history but stealing the pioneers' moves. It spans Engelbart's 1968 Demo highlights (collective intellect augmentation), Alan Kay's 1997 keynote—swap "computers" for "LLMs" and it's uncomfortably current—Adele Goldberg on Smalltalk as a dynamic medium for children, plus Bret Victor, Suchman, Parrish and more.
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