I have been thinking along similar lines, so if you ever start anything up please get in touch. I think in order to pull this off one needs to build a new kind

I have been thinking along similar lines, so if you ever start anything up please get in touch. I think in order to pull this off one needs to build a new kind of personal computer from the ground up with specific end designs in mind. I have become particularly attached to the idea that the "window manager" equivalent of such a system would be "Hypercard-like" in that all windows, icons, and behaviors at that level can be described, explored, and manipulated in the Hypercard-like thing. It would be powerful and enough for most users. If they needed to go deeper, they could peel back a layer and discover the (high level) systems language, someting like Lisp or Smalltalk with easy library abstractions that can also be explored and learned etc. Hopefully that makes sense.