Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask was an amazing man with an amazing mind. He was born June 28, 1928 and he liked to say, he was not born but popped out of a champagne bottle. When he died on March 28, 1996, he left an extraordinary body of work and a study (room) that those who knew him recognised as both his archive and a map of his brain and person. For Pask, the study of human learning was also the study of himself. Pask’s work is groundbreaking and still ahead of the field. It has laid foundations for the development of a more humane understanding of human action, and an intelligent interaction between humans and computers. There is no question that Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory, and the later Interaction of Actors Theory, are thoroughly constructivist theories, concerned at heart with the (necessarily) personal generation of understandings of the world which are uniquely of each participant in any conversation. Ranulph Glanville, president of the American Society for Cybernetics [ASC], professor of architecture and cybernetics, University College Londonweiterlesen