Teach children [and grown-up] to be media guerrillas:
• So, one of the major things that schools
should be charged with, is to teach children
to be media guerrillas—that’s what we call
them.
• It’s guerrilla warfare going on,
because everything has been infiltrated.
• It’s not like you’re out in the battlefield.
• It’s going on right in your community,
in your own house.
• Things that are constant in our environment
both seem natural and also become invisible.
Seymour Papert: “Look if you want to learn French, don’t take it in 5th or 6th grade. Go to France, because everything that makes learning French reasonable, and everything that helps learning French, is in France. If you want to do it in the United States, make a France.”
“Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general’s warning.”
AK [Alan Kay]: I once said, “Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general’s warning.” That’s a very Neil Postman-kind of thing.
AK [Alan Kay]: ... ... ... But the disturbing thing is that the most general adopters of smoking are young people.
I used to be a smoker. I smoked until I was 26 and quit. It was back in the ’50s. Everybody smoked back then. I quit because my girlfriend wanted both of us to quit. Her idea was, divide the number of cigarettes in half every day, then get rid of the last ones, so about three or four days. Basically, I wanted a cigarette so badly, I got angry and decided I’d never smoke one again. That was two years of deep pain, six months of excruciating pain. Because it’s more addicting than heroin.
AK: Yeah, because most people do. I just was not going to do it, but the thing about smoking is, I don’t believe anybody gets any pleasure from it until you’re more or less into it, because it creates its own need and it actually can make you a little bit ill.
According to the studies that I’ve seen, virtually everybody who does it, does it for some image reason and usually a social reason. After you’ve done it a little bit, the actual addiction hangs in there and then you’re smoking to get back up to zero, slightly under zero.
Then there’s the other kind of addiction, which are partially social and partly self-punishment. The painkiller ones are interesting because I think that they do—what a lot of people get hooked on booze with is—it has an anesthetic effect.
I think any of kind of rational thinking on this stuff for a lot of people is not going to get you any further than the typical experiments of behavioral economists these days. Because this is System 1 versus System 2. If I’m a diabetic, I’m not getting any candy bars, but if you put a candy bar in front of a diabetic who has sugar cravings, most of them are going to take it, and rationalize it. I think that is where you’re in real trouble in terms of media.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now
https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now
09.15.17
BY BRIAN MERCHANT
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