* Introduction

  - DUP CONS
  
  - function composition :  LOW / HIGH abstraction level

  - combination (opportunism) : CAT / PURRR

  - compression of ideas


* Living on silicon crums

  - repurpose industrial excess: mcu everywhere -> mcu cheap

  - computers used to flash leds ??? really ???

  - provide means to use 'embedded chips' interactively as a real computer

  - bare metal / no abstraction

  - stand alone forth machine? for 5 euros? inside a PC keyboard?


* Chuck More's ideas: Dispelling the user illusion 

  Wikipedia:
  "The term user illusion originated at Xerox PARC to describe the
   illusion created for the user by a human-computer interface, for
   example the visual metaphor of a desktop used in many Graphical
   user interfaces."

  More's view on things

  - the only real thing is the hardware

  - generality (hardware abstraction) is often not necessary, and can
    simplify systems upto 1000x

  - if hardware changes, rewrite software. reuse only ideas. software
    is cheap if kept simple, and very expensive if not slimmed down.


* Rising systems complexity

  - practical solution to a communication problem

  - like almost any other software based system, including
    microprocessors: silicon chips = compiled software.

  - Web 2.0 : kludge system thats lowest common denominator of all
    platforms = simple distributed virtual machine.



* STOP! - start from scratch

  get rid of complexity that supports complexity (life)
  
  - return to simplicity in hardware : x18 / seaforth

    -> asynchronous / designed by hand

  - moi : CAT / PURRR