Alan Kay at TED demonstrates some software they developed for the $100 laptop - demo starts at around 12:20. It allows children to create mathematical models and visualize them in the real world. If we can provide software that children can learn who to model the effects of gravity on a bouncing ball, then really modeling and visualizing the impact of say a price change on our business should be simple.

Alan Kay’s presentation at TED

Xcelsius allows you to build models in Excel, load them and dynamically visualize the information. So Excel and Xcelsius provides the modeling, now we just need to really really understand our business and create that library of working models.

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