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What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
pendent nonprofit research lab, whose mission is to enable universal literacy in a humane dynamic medium. This involves inventing a humane form of computing, and developing educational and community-based institutions in which a culture can grow.
By “communal”, we mean bringing people together in the same physical space, with a medium that supports and strengthens face-to-face interaction, shared hands-on work, tacit knowledge, mutual context, and generally being present in the same reality. Authoring is for all educated citizens, not reserved for specialists; the act involves writing sentences, drawing pictures, and arranging materials, not manipulating “code”; and the intent is to express an idea for people to explore, discuss, and reply to, not to produce a tool for users to “use”. The technical design of Realtalk was deeply inspired by Sketchpad, Smalltalk, Lisp machines, Self, HyperCard, Etoys, Inform 7, Linda, and Datalog, and we’ve also drawn ideas from Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Forth, and many others.
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