Each application is still largely a siloed experience. AppleScript/KDE's old DCOP/AutoHotKey (see [1])/others have tried to make tge application surface itself machine ysable, something that can be integrared & worked upon, but these old frontiers fade, & the application is more or less king of it's own kingdom, the sole arbitrator of function once more.

Mostly I think we just lack good upstanding examples of positive, extropic, "create more value than you capture" systems. Technocapitalism hasnt seen thr profit motive, and frelling "linux on the desktop" has sucked most of the oxygen out of the computing room- competing for obsolete pre-connected crowns.

Recent "How consumer computer is consuming computing"[2] carries many of these tendrils. There's just fee strong positive innovations to push things the other way. Some efforts like Node-RED try to offer some resistance, something, I though XOPC has a lot going for it (Dbus Telepathy for multiparty apps kicked ass), but there's little awareness & counter-prrdsure against the caging in, except from ever more dispirate edges.

[1] "In Praise of AutoHotKey" https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655951 (21min ago)

[2] https://schmud.de/posts/2022-08-23-the-consumer-computer.htm... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32636101 (34 points, 4 hours, 14 comments)