Do you miss the ability to take a bunch of paper, books, and writing utensils and spread them out over a huge desk or table? Me too!

This project is fantastic. It’s taking a page from the Smalltalk environments of yore, cross-referencing that with Bret Victor’s ideas on workspace interactivity. The result is a kick-in-the-pants to almost every developer’s current workflow.

There’s a lot to think about here. A lot of people focus on making their workflow faster, but what about a workspace that makes it easier to think? There’s a lot of room to design a better workspace, even if you’re not going as far as Light Table does.

There’s a project on Kickstarter to fund further development of Light Table. If you write software, it’s likely in your interest to chip in.