# A powerful idea about ideas

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2007
- Speaker: Alan Kay
- Year: 2007
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.

## Lectures

1. [A powerful idea about ideas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alan_kay_a_powerful_idea_about_ideas/241fb2a5920b), 21 min (TED's player)