every layer of the modern computing landscape has been built upon the assumption that users are passive recipients rather than active co-creators. What we need instead are computing systems that invite every user to gradually become a creator.
Is "creator" the right word here? There's lots of software that falls outside of what is the subject of this paper that enables creators. Indeed, it has been a common refrain in criticisms of the FOSS movement that for the types of software that creatives need and/or simply desire to use the proprietary apps tend to have no equals.