[Air-l] a question

[Mary Bryson]

Alan Kay?
--maybe not...
I'd venture to say we could go back a little further back
And say it was a woman
what a surprize :)
I'd say it was Ada Lovelace who wrote eloquently about the ways in which
digital code could simulate all kinds of media
This is discussed at some length
in Plant's Zeros and Ones

mary 

On 2/11/04 12:12 PM, "Jonas Heide Smith" <jonas at autofire.dk> wrote:

> Jesper,
> 
>> Who was the first to say that the computer can simulate all former
> kinds 
>> of media?
> 
> I believe the honour goes to Alan Kay ("Personal Dynamic Media", 1977):
> 
> "...the ability to simulate the details of any descriptive model means
> that the computer, viewed as a
> medium itself, can be all other media if the embedding and viewing
> methods are sufficiently well provided. Moreover, this new “metamedium”
> is active..."
> 
> But you could - I think - call the statement an extension of Alan
> Turing's description of the computer as a machine which could simulate
> (or be, if you like) all other machines.
> 
> Best,
> Jonas
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> jespert
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:50 PM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] a question
> 
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> Who was the first to say that the computer can simulate all former kinds
> 
> of media?
> 
> Best Regards
> Jesper

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