> I can only hope one day some breakthrough in C.S. will get us past this "Cambrian Explosion" period and things will finally start to settle down. I genuinely

> I can only hope one day some breakthrough in C.S. will get us past this "Cambrian Explosion" period and things will finally start to settle down. I genuinely do feel like we're in the stone age in this industry right now. I've thought about it a lot, but of course, it's hard to really get to the good ideas when you can't hop on lot of stepping stones that will be found later and taken for granted. I think a few things will happen. 100 or 200 years from now (if it's even appropriate to think on such a timescale!), we'll have some very large scale, stable data storage systems that people can simply rely on. A few common development paradigms will have thoroughly been cemented in our collective consciousness, and the programmers of the day will be essentially what construction workers are right now, perhaps with a bit more creativity. They'll follow plans and be put into rigid confines when programming with the system, and it'll be scalable from a development perspective. I haven't got much further than that. It's hard to step more than a few layers deep on stuff like this. A lot of the rest of it depends on how things like AI and VR and a bunch of stuff I can barely imagine will pan out. But from a software point of view, I think we're still waiting on a bunch of 100-monkey-style revelations.