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> incentive for innovation

Do you think Alan Kay was incentivised by money to do all the stuff he talked about in this video?

OK - so alan kay did working on creating this great system. Is there any knowledge from it used in a practical application today ? Probably no, because

a.It's probably too soon.

b.It often takes boring work(and money) to transfer pure ideas to successful practical applications.

we were talking about insentives for innovation, not insentives for boring work. I agree that boring work should be insentivised by money.

I'd be interesting in going the course of: boring work should be eliminated through automation or obsolescence.

I don't think anything says you can't use another incentive.

Innovate or die (literally), doesn't seem like the wisest philosophy to base life on this planet around.

Who paid you for your comment?

Take a look at this thread -- scroll all the way to the bottom. What is the incentive for all of that?