I'm enjoying Make TV's bias for steampunk. In the 19th century, the intelligence in a design had a physical representation. Shining metal pushing metal. It was beautiful and you could see it. Since the integrated circuit, a design is microscopic or invisible. Even the source code of software's too opaque: the connections are implied by shared words. Code is the most tractable medium, so our most complicated machines will be programs. But we can't enjoy the purposeful complexity of our greatest works. Imagine a program that transforms any program's movements into a visual mechanical analogy.
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