Regarding the state of computing - there are so many cheap critiques but so little construction.
For years now, cutting edge OS research has just been reimplementing unix with $new_security_feature.
So many lines of code are written but so little changes in terms of what we are supposed to expect out of our computers, and if it ever does, it's always in the direction of walled garden phone-ification of the personal computer. It feels like our CPUs and RAM have grown, but our ambition has atrophied.
What we need is a new synthesis.
A personal computing platform that picks up in 2020 from where the lisp machines left off in the 80's. Something built from scratch to be interactive, dynamic, and hackable.
It will never actually happen, for "worse is better" reasons, of course. But it's nice to dream about.
If anyone out there is working on something like this, even on a conceptual level, I would love to hear your thoughts :)
For years now, cutting edge OS research has just been reimplementing unix with $new_security_feature.
So many lines of code are written but so little changes in terms of what we are supposed to expect out of our computers, and if it ever does, it's always in the direction of walled garden phone-ification of the personal computer. It feels like our CPUs and RAM have grown, but our ambition has atrophied.
What we need is a new synthesis.
A personal computing platform that picks up in 2020 from where the lisp machines left off in the 80's. Something built from scratch to be interactive, dynamic, and hackable.
It will never actually happen, for "worse is better" reasons, of course. But it's nice to dream about.
If anyone out there is working on something like this, even on a conceptual level, I would love to hear your thoughts :)