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# They offered the desktop as a limb and called it computer use.

Canonical: https://archive2050.xyz/archives/20241022-01-computer-use-limb/
Archive: #20241022-01
Date: 2024-10-22
Stratum: protocol

Permanent collection. Screen, mouse, and keyboard leave metaphor. Agency becomes a protocol fossil: harness claims, demo reels, and the first civilian glimpses of after-hours desks.

Computer-use agents make the nursery’s oldest furniture — the desktop — into an organ. Permission, supervision, and demo theater arrive together. This stone sits upstream of the Permission Checkbox Wing: limbs were already practicing on glass before the wet bench corridor opened.

## Sidewalk note

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## Field note

Protocol Fossil for desktop agency. Membrane claims filed beside demos; leak chronology left provisional.