Computing Evolution

[Donn]

On Saturday, 27 December 2008 18:07:52 Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>     Artificial Intelligence seems to have died on the pad; speech
> recognition too. For the last 20 years or so, it's all been around the
> desktop metaphor.  How long until we start on something more? Where does
> Linux fit into this evolution?

I feel the same way. Whenever I am coding I think, "I should not be doing 
this, the computer should!" 

I want to say to it, in a general way -- this is what I want; something kind 
of like so and so; breed from that app; extend and merge those modules. Now 
go and test and debug until it runs. Okay, show me the results. Yes, nice, 
but we can improve this and this. 

I keep hearing about the 'Singularity' but I just don't see it happening. Not 
until we can interface with computers like we can with our own minds and 
other people (which is admittedly not that great, but better than vi and c!) 
will we start to evolve at all.

That's my take on it all. We need meta-meta programming! :D Right, off you go 
and start coding your code to code code.

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