— The Mercury News reports that schools are getting their feet a little damp in mobile computing:
Across the nation, schools are taking the radical step of putting portable technology into the hands of children. After years of debate over the use of computers in schools, educators say the new mobility finally will make technology a classroom tool as ordinary as textbooks and paper.
Right, dudes, schools were the main application areas we had in mind when we invented the wireless MAC protocol for the Photonics IR LAN back in the early 90s. Not that we were all that brilliant, since we stole the idea from Alan Kay’s dynabook.
My God, Alan Kay. I haven’t thought about him in two or three years. What’s he doing these days, I wonder?