Against Usefulness

A venture investor recounts visiting Folk Computer, an open-source physical computing system built by ex-Dynamicland researchers in Brooklyn, where paper sheets are live running programs and the room itself is the computer. The essay traces the intellectual lineage from Xerox PARC through Alan Kay, Bret Victor's CDG and Dynamicland, to Folk Computer's open-source pivot. It argues that paradigm-shifting work is always pre-useful by design, historically funded by patrons rather than markets, and that the current AI agent monoculture leaves no one asking the strange questions. The author closes with a call for independent thinkers working on unfashionable long-horizon problems, offering introductions, grants, and distribution rather than just investment.

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