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…we want to be able to shape our machines, to make our computers •ours•, to make them clay not yet fired.

The hunger is there.

The noble humanist vision is more relevant than ever.

The societal need to get humans out from under the concentrated power of computing vendors is dire and urgent.

And the success of things like HyperCard in making the machine just a little more fungible, of inviting people into the magic of tinkering…well, those historical successes make me think we should keep pursuing that goal of the “soft clay,” even if it’s a utopia that will •always• be beyond the horizon.

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