Bret Victor The Future of Programming
Joey Reid
Why leaders watch it
A reminder not to assume you know the right approach and to revisit forgotten ideas; the lesson generalizes but the content is technical.
Bret Victor's DBX 2013 talk, delivered in the guise of a 1973 IBM engineer with an overhead projector. It surveys forgotten ideas from 1960s and early 70s computing and warns against assuming you know what you're doing.
Topics: Innovation & creativity, Change & transformation
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