Alan Kay talking about Xerox PARC in 1972 says, “Anything I talk about should not be construed as future plans of Xerox and probably is not”.

In this 1972 video Alan Kay discusses the prototypes under development at Xerox PARC in the early 1970’s. He talks about art, creativity, learning language, and cost curves. “Most of this is science fiction right now, but in a couple of years it will cost as much as color TV”.

Notice the $400 HP “electronic slide rule” at 5:12. It’s now called a “calculator”.

There is an e-reader prototype that preceded the Kindle, and he talks about the importance of font display long before Steve Jobs dropped in to his calligraphy class at Reed College.

At 20:40 he says “We’re moving on as quickly as we can, to see if these ideas are real.”