- The community! Most people I interacted with were pretty inter-disciplinary. Some came from an education heavy background, others from a more programming language background. Some from interface design, others from physical installation or video game background (and everything in between). Everyone had their own degree of skepticism but were excited by the discussions that were happening (a sign of a good research culture!).

- The representations: What excites me the most about Dynamicland is that it's an environment for fostering unique representations of ideas. The cultural forces & ideas (social programming, remixing, visible state / code at all times, 3d environment, etc) baked into the space encourage the experimentation & creation of new ways of representing complex ideas. Some scattered examples here - https://twitter.com/dynamicland1?lang=en

- Removal of artificial barriers: When programming on a computer these days, there's so many barriers to doing simple things. The amount of code that exists to do virtual actions in a virtual world is MASSIVE, and acts as a huge barrier. This is something Bret talks about at the end of his interview on Postlight (https://postlight.com/trackchanges/podcast/computing-is-ever...). Because code / programs in Dynamicland are embodied in the room, you don't need code to move a dialog box or a slider around. You just moved it yourself. This is super powerful and it means your code can focus on the actual computation itself, not on virtual UI movement. Eventually, Dynamicland will have robotics to automate moving of objects, but this already is a great start.

- Moving around: Moving around, even if it's just around a table, is AWESOME. We're so used to sitting (or standing) at a desk and staying still that we don't get to take advantage of embodied intelligence. We think in SO many different ways, and our "thinking" doesn't just happen in the head. Our arms, legs, stomach, and feet all contribute to the thinking process. Combine that with multi-sensory representations that live across all of these channels and you can explore a thought & idea space SO quickly and uniquely. This is so hard to describe and under-rated. This link (http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...) and this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg) attempt to do these ideas justice but it's quite hard to transfer this context!