Advantages and Problems of Executable Data

I recently read two essays that dealt with the “Data as a Program” idea. It’s a nice idea overall, but there has to be downsides, right? I sat down for a few hours and riffed on the idea, and thought of a few problems that would need to be overcome by anyone using the “data [...]

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Obsolete Power Corrupts

Moving down my bookshelf, I was looking for a good Peter Norvig quotation. Through providence (read: Google), I discovered that Norvig himself maintains a quotes page, and here was my favorite:
“Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.”
~ Ted Nelson, on the Microsoft DOS operating system
Unfortunately, I could not find the source of the quotation, [...]

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