@syntacticsugarglider @eris I think those practical reasons have become an interesting vehicle for the theory, I guess one of the things that hard for me is to envision "an escape" from that ontology that still uses the same sort of theoretical substrate.

When I think about the possibilities of computing, I have a hard time thinking outside of the handful of office apps, games, and a/v software. This isn't a dig at people who are doing that, more so just that I can't even imagine what's possible with a computer besides Windows 95-type stuff. Applications are boring, but so is "strap this monitor to your head". Stuff like Dynamicland is cool (amazing actually), but they mostly just use new interfaces with the same old abstractions.

what can you do with a computer besides re-implement all the stuff that's already on it