Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
Colin McDonnell · 4 HN recommendations
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Bret Victor's 2013 MIT Media Lab talk argues that the media we think with determine which thoughts are possible. He demos new representations for scientific papers, circuits, filters and signal processing.
Why HN recommends it: HN treats it as one of the canonical Bret Victor talks, cited whenever discussion turns to better tools and interfaces for thinking.
“Tools let us think previously unthinkable thoughts.” Read on HN ↗