1484 - tweak utopia

From http://www.musklevel.com/s/xregsj/teaching_people_to_read_other_people%27s_computer_programs

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 Mu's vision of utopia:
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-<li>1/1000th the code to run your devices
-<li>1000x the number of forks for open source projects
-<li>make simple changes to large open-source codebases in an afternoon (but
-don't worry about merging them upstream)
-<li>large codebases that don't slow down with age, that continue to evolve
-just as fast as when they were first started.
-<li>software that rewards curiosity, allowing anyone to query its design
-decisions and easily try out radical redesign ideas in a sandbox. Learning
-programming as needed.
-<li><a href='https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf'>habitable</a> digital environments
-<li>a <em>literate</em> digital society with widespread skills to comprehend
-large-scale software structure and compare-and-contrast programs in a domain. (I
-don't think anybody is literate by this definition today.)
+<li>Run your devices in 1/1000th the code.
+<li>1000x more forks for open source projects.
+<li>Make simple changes to any project in an afternoon, no matter how large it is.
+<li>Projects don't slow down with age, they continue to evolve just as fast as
+when they were first started.
+<li>All software rewards curiosity, allowing anyone to query its design
+decisions, gradually learn how to tweak it, try out increasingly radical
+redesign ideas in a sandbox. People learn programming as an imperceptible side
+effect of tinkering with the projects they care about.
+<li><a href='https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf'>Habitable</a> digital environments.
+<li>A <em>literate</em> digital society with widespread skills for
+comprehending large-scale software structure and comparing-and-contrasting
+similar solutions. (I don't think anybody is literate by this definition
+today. All we can do easily is read our own programs that we wrote recently.)
+</ul>
 
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