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Alan Kay has often lamented that Smalltalk was effectively frozen after it was released to world, effectively freezing some of the implementation choices due to the tiny (in current day terms) hardware that was available to them. My question is what are the next great ideas now that hardware is so cheap it's almost disposable (and I'm not talking about the mechanistic progression of today's languages, where no language/system is written in itself and has a model of itself and any substantial program needs an army of people to implement it). Where is the Sagrada Familia or Empire State Building version of programming of today? I feel DynamicLand is a hint of this kind of ubiquitous idiosyncratic computing, similar to the democratization of literacy. Are there any other hints out there?


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