https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/HomePage.html

As a public research initiative, pretty much everything was published when the initiative was completed. PIMs are absolute engineering marvels. The ICOT had command of an army of the absolute best talent in the entire country, and unified them towards a goal of pure exploratory research with no market pressure, with all the excesses of 1980s Japan.

"If you really want to great phenomenal items here is the plan:

- enter a market

- become a monopoly

- use those monopoly profits to fund R&D/building items of incredible quality"

A recent example of that is Apple TV. Apple makes so much money that they can fund the creation of incredibly high quality shows with basically minimal advertising.

0 - https://www.tiktok.com/@rorysutherlandclips/video/7314765561...

Increasingly, I think that an agent (and I) would work much better in a malleable, notebook-like, inspectable program, than it would with its current file-based “edit and re-run” primitives.

“Marimo pair” (built into their notebook-like primitive) is an attempt at this. And they have program introspection tools built in.

I also think that Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/) might be a similar live environment, but I haven’t investigated it too much other than reading about it.

Is anyone else familiar with “modern” attempts at this?

Wonderful for Larry et.,al. to keep it going as open source.