{"id":15152,"date":"2025-11-06T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15152"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:10:20","slug":"the-relationship-between-computing-and-its-history-is-that-of-a-willful-amnesiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15152","title":{"rendered":"The relationship between Computing and its history is that of a willful amnesiac."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;[&#8230;] pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you\u2019re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future\u2014it\u2019s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]\u2014and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Alan Kay, on Computing,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/bbm:978-3-319-90008-7\/1.pdf\">Dr. Dobb\u2019s Interview with Alan Kay 2012<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[&#8230;] pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you\u2019re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future\u2014it\u2019s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]\u2014and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15152\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Wo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15155,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions\/15155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}