Just this afternoon I finished reading David Harland's 1988 book "Rekursiv: Object-Oriented Computer Architecture". It describes a completely different way of d

Just this afternoon I finished reading David Harland's 1988 book "Rekursiv: Object-Oriented Computer Architecture". It describes a completely different way of designing machines at the low level that can support better programming environments at the high level. You might want to check it out. I believe we are going to see further balkanization between different operating systems / programming systems and computers based upon what they are use for. Cloud services will be the domain of what today we call "systems programmers" who work in compiled languages and care about speed. In contrast, we might now be able to get real "personal computers" running environments that teach their users how to peel back the layers and manipulate them — the long sought personal computing medium. This all could have happened back in the 80s, but we didn't have widespread or fast use of the Internet. Now it's different, and both of these types of systems can interop together in the blink of an eye because of it. Both will require completely new computing architectures.