[…] we should imagine that when we are sending messages under the conditions of possible enormous scales that every Message is not an encapsulated “Telegram”, but has the potential of being a full-fledged Ambassador, so that it can likewise take part in real Negotiation of Meaning at the receiving end.
We can now imagine that to bind to a resource, our object (and object system) will be able to negotiate actively with the environment of the object to Get Interior Views of Exterior Resources.
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Alan Kay, Is there Static Typing for a Smalltalk derivative? quora 