Dave Haynie Interview - Insights On Future Technology

[Calen]

lifeschool over at Lemonamiga has interviewed everyone's favourite Amiga Guru and ex Chief Engineer at Commodore - Dave "HazyDave" Haynie.

"You are welcome here today to bare witness to a brand new and exclusive interview with a hero of the Amiga scene - the legendary Dave Haynie. For those who don't know, Dave started on the Commodore 128, and continued through to the much heralded 'AAA' chipset- the successor to AGA. I took the opportunity to interview him."

http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9234

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere on this site but i never seen it, Interview was done last month.

Always interesting to read Dave's insight into current and future technologies and of course the odd Amiga tidbit

[fishy_fiz]

Thanks for posting this. Quite interesting reading. The interviewers obsession with "Next gen computer" is weird though. "No such thing" he's told from the offset, but then the next 10 quesions or so focus on that very thing. Good on David Haynie for humoring the guy at least I guess. He makes it intersting reading, despite some lacklusture and weird questions.

[Tension]

Hardly news! Read this a while back.

[commodorejohn]

The interviewers obsession with "Next gen computer" is weird though. "No such thing" he's told from the offset, but then the next 10 quesions or so focus on that very thing.

Indeed. Though it's certainly refreshing to see a tech-industry designer/prognosticator who doesn't blindly fawn over the kind of Popular Science/Star Trek: The Next Generation design concepts that are clearly invented by a concept artist who's never given a thought to usability in their life...

[Heiroglyph]

Those questions got really painful after a while. I skipped the vast majority of it.

I'm glad to hear from Dave, but wow, ask a new question.

[runequester]

Maybe the questions were prepared ahead of time but yeah, sort of annoying.

[Kesa]

OK then, what questions would you guys ask him? I liked the question TBH  

[commodorejohn]

I'd ask him where he sees computing technology going, instead of "these are all the totally cool futurey things I read about in Wired, tell me that's going to happen, 'kay?"

[SamuraiCrow]

I'd ask him where he sees computing technology going, instead of "these are all the totally cool futurey things I read about in Wired, tell me that's going to happen, 'kay?"

If you'd ask me where I see technology going I'll give you a two-word answer:

The toilet.  :griping:

[Kesa]

If you'd ask me where I see technology going I'll give you a two-word answer:

The toilet.  :griping:

You mean toilets that can talk or something? They already do that in Japan:

[Kesa]

I think this one is going to be very useful when it comes out. Space toilet!



Not sure what this one does though...

[takemehomegrandma]

Always interesting to read Dave's insight into current and future technologies

I don't really understand this broad obsession with Dave Haynie. Yes, he was one of the people involved in some past Commodore products, but AFAIK he hasn't been involved in anything relevant for at least a decade (if not more), so why on earth would anyone really be interested in what he has to say about future technologies? I mean, isn't the guy completely out of the loop?

(Note: I haven't read your link (and I won't), I'm merely commenting on the quoted sentence...)

[Calen]

I don't really understand this broad obsession with Dave Haynie. Yes, he was one of the people involved in some past Commodore products, but AFAIK he hasn't been involved in anything relevant for at least a decade (if not more), so why on earth would anyone really be interested in what he has to say about future technologies? I mean, isn't the guy completely out of the loop?

(Note: I haven't read your link (and I won't), I'm merely commenting on the quoted sentence...)

Each to there own and all that but i find him quite interesting. Sure he is not involved in anything Amiga related these days but his past, present & future insight is interesting to me and it would seem a few others on this site.

Perhaps it's mainly been his past accomplishments inside Commodore, and what they had been working on to the end, to all his nuggets of information he has shared, and to the days of his Deathbed Vigil video for me was quite interesting and an insight we may never have known. Maybe it's nostaglia and on what could have been and he's just been more the vocal guy who worked on all of this.
Obession?   Of course not, but hey, hes different,  nothing wrong with that.
Thumbs up to Dave for not being a boring suit

"Hello Dave. I recently saw your 2005/2006 CommVEX/User Group videos Smile - in which you are sadly underused as an interviewee (guess you noticed) on youtube. Laughing Any thoughts on that?

Yeah... that was kind of weird. They actually paid for my trip out there, and then it was basically up to me to just hang around. I even broke out a guitar and played for them while they were taking the show down"

[DaBest]

Very nice interview... enoyed reading it..

Thanks