“The factor you might be doing has seemingly been achieved earlier than. And which may appear miserable, however I feel it’s probably the most fantastic factor ever. Because it means an schooling in pc science is value one thing.”
The quote above comes from an informative and entertaining discuss that John Graham-Cumming gave at OSCON in 2013, by which he factors out that there hasn’t been a lot new in computing since 1983, what with wi-fi networking first carried out in 1971, markup languages within the Nineteen Sixties, and, as pictured above, “hypertext with clickable hyperlinks, 1967″.
Because progress has largely consisted of efficiency and interface enhancements, it’s comforting to know that making use of your self to the data of computing is sort of as important and timeless a pursuit as math and literacy. Fittingly, I noticed this video after somebody linked to it on Hacker News, in response to a 1964 Atlantic article I linked to: Martin Greenberger’s “Computers of Tomorrow”.
In his 50-year-old essay, Greenberger successfully predicts, the Internet, internet neutrality, cloud computing, and the automation of the New York Stock Exchange. But one of the best line is the essay’s final line, which aligns with Graham-Cumming’s optimism about human data in computing:
By 2000 AD man ought to have a significantly better comprehension of himself and his system, not as a result of he shall be innately any smarter than he’s at this time, however as a result of he can have discovered to make use of imaginatively probably the most highly effective amplifier of intelligence but devised.
Graham-Cumming’s discuss is out there on SlideShare too.