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Hi Alan,

You mentioned Bob Barton's lecture a few times [1], emphasizing the role he played in debunking some of your (and his own) ideas about computing. Could you touch on some dogmas that haven't yet been evoked in this thread or in your videos on YouTube ? Either from the 70's or today. Let me link to Ted Nelson's remarks about the tradition of files/lumps [2] for a start.

Bullet-point may not be the ideal form for an answer but feel free to get away with that :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKBzIuBY&t=7m39s

[2] https://youtu.be/c_KbLKm89pU?t=1m46s



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