>>That's what Alan Kay thought personal computers were going to be for. This prediction did work out in one area that computing has always been significant: mu

>>That's what Alan Kay thought personal computers were going to be for. This prediction did work out in one area that computing has always been significant: music-making. If you consider that your average synthesizer is an analog computer with a process pipeline, modern software has definitely fulfilled the modelling/simulation goals set by the pioneers in the early years. The average electronic musician using a computer to compute sound is well and truly driving a computing process with modelling techniques - though there is a very wide scope of variety between the interface being used to produce this result, it is true -nevertheless in the synthesizer world, these concepts have lived on and matured. Play with puredata (http://puredata.info/ http://puredata.info/) or any one of the thousands of other sound modelling/synthesis applications out there and you'll see this reality. The challenge then becomes to figure out how to turn your average business process into a synthesis, of sorts, which can be modelled in an analogous fashion ..