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Kay also said later that (anything lost in translation is my fault) he thinks he misjudged the scale of an object, instead of being tiny packs of methods, they should be interfaces for larger "computing devices". Like tiny virtual machines that can live into and move from actual hardware, and computing through communication over any kind of channels (local, remote).

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