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@deprogrammaticaipsum @khinsen I think I feel similarly.

I think the major ideas I want to bring forward, and it’s almost a glimpse of better instead of a specific idea, are the ideas of profound “simplicity” and immediacy. Retro machines had these in bucket loads. Modern machines nearly never do.

I think the limit of retro machines is that many of their user abstractions, while very simple, graspable and immediate, were not very “good”. They didn’t compose well in to larger things.

But modern machines are also often not composable either! And they’re also wildly complex and unknowable.

My retro futurism is a hope for computing that feels tangible, entirely graspable, and very immediate, but which have abstractions that happily scale to modern sophistication, while remaining tractable.