Comment by dredmorbius

A/K/A "generative computing", which has been under attack for a long time. I believe Jonathan Zittrain's written specifically on the topic, though the closest match I'm currently finding is about the generative Internet:

<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=847124>

Also "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It" (2008): <https://futureoftheinternet.org/>

Response: <https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2010/09/do-we-need-new-ge...>

Cory Doctorow on the war against general purpose computing: <https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html> (2012)