Super interesting stuff, will go through it! Somewhat unfortunately I've mostly departed from research and have defected to the financial industry. I actually recently gave a talk about Engelbart and his ideas to my colleague, in case someone here finds this interesting:
You seem to be in a perfect position to advise Bret Victor or us about financing options for this work, especially the non-research parts. For example, we apply our wafer scale technology and Smalltalk software to energy systems and energy production at 1 cent per kWh, around 60 times lowr then the European Grid prices. That should interest the financing sector and asset management.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIlzXEaOH1I