At reboot7, in Copenhagen in June of this year, I ended up giving two presentations. The first was on Mind Hacks and the user interface. The second was an ad hoc talk that I wrote one day and gave the next, on the future of programming. My ideas have progressed (or at least changed) since then, but I wanted to put my of-their-time slides and notes online anyway, at least because the conversation in the room was so brilliant, and I'd like to let that go wider.
So, here it is: The 3 Steps: The history of physics and the future of computing. It's lengthy and hand-wavey, but - I feel - when the ideas are applied, very concrete. My summary on page 1: Trying to figure out what comes after object oriented programming, taking lessons from how we've understood gravity over the past few thousand years.
At reboot7, in Copenhagen in June of this year, I ended up giving two presentations. The first was on Mind Hacks and the user interface. The second was an ad hoc talk that I wrote one day and gave the next, on the future of programming. My ideas have progressed (or at least changed) since then, but I wanted to put my of-their-time slides and notes online anyway, at least because the conversation in the room was so brilliant, and I'd like to let that go wider.
So, here it is: The 3 Steps: The history of physics and the future of computing. It's lengthy and hand-wavey, but - I feel - when the ideas are applied, very concrete. My summary on page 1: