Bret Victor A year and a half ago, on a plane, I wrote An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" . The talk was my most personal one to date, and the note was perhaps the most honest thing I had written in public. There was a paragraph which didn't make the cut, but never left my mind: I'm figuring this out as I go. One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself. The talk I'll be releasing tomorrow is called The Humane Representation of Thought . It's based on a piece of writing that I started over a year ago, a long-term research agenda (and floor plan) for myself and my the...