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by kkfx 735 days ago
Anti-human is software not in control of it's human user. So an "environmental computing infrastructure" is anti-human.

A classic desktop model, where the OS is a single application, user-programmable with ease like modern Emacs or classic Smalltalk workstations, of course networked with other systems offering the same kind of interaction, so a kind of "environmental computing" but personal that's pro-human. Because you are not slave of someone else created automation with more or less limited personalization, you are the owner, the commander of anything belonging to you.

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Yes I agree. I think that my main issue is that with today's software, we are assuming the identity of our 'digital twin', instead of having it firmly separated from us. This is my main problem with representational aspect of our current software infrastructure. It actually removes ownership and control over the software.