>To overcome that with software, we need to dramatically reduce the cost of developing software, enabling ordinary employees to develop their own software. I t

>To overcome that with software, we need to dramatically reduce the cost of developing software, enabling ordinary employees to develop their own software. I think this is the key to running an effective organisation. It requires that most people know how to program, or at least know enough to understand what is possible to program. I also don't see this coming, partly because the education systems are not really up to par, but also because it's really hard to develop complex systems. I'd argue that the languages are not really the issue here even if the trends seems to go towards even crappier languages (like js, php) to really mess up the heads of beginners. But even with a hypothetical "perfect language" the main problems is the huge amount of time and effort it takes to learn any programming language at all, plus the even more enormous amount of time it takes to write something useful even for a really experienced developer. But sure. It's perhaps time for a new cycle of tearing down the "mainframes" (in someone else's basement this time) and reinvent personal computing for the 2nd or 3rd time...