If you believe in the great nano-hardware apotheosis, 50 years from now you won't program, you'll advise. Startup hackers will write essays like pg does now, e

If you believe in the great nano-hardware apotheosis, 50 years from now you won't program, you'll advise. Startup hackers will write essays like pg does now, except their audience will be swarms of semi-cognizant nanobots who will decide on their own if their suggestions are worthwhile. Only the efficient ones will have their choices passed along to the next generation. There will be great religious wars at the atomic scale as the bots try and decide where best to put their molecular parentheses. All this will happen so fast it will be unnoticeable to humans, most of whom will be too busy keeping each other entertained.