I read Alan Kay et al's NSF proposal to re-envision how we program computers. Also there is a video Alan talking at Intel Research at Berkley. Lastly I was really intrigued with his description of "Albert" a bootstrapping VM compiler. After much googling I found Ian Piumarta's Open, extensible dynamic programming systems paper from DSL 2006. What an ambitious and worthy project! The idea of a self describing exploratorium which is 20,000 lines of code to produce a new personal computer is brilliant. There is a lot to think about with the dozen or so principals he delineates and the many experimental fields of computation which they are going to explore. Quite inspiring.