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Eventually everything will be sealed in lego like blocks. We will then stop calling software technology.
by kingludite 7y ago
Eventually everything will be sealed in lego like blocks. We will then stop calling software technology.
- gtirloni 7y agoHow far away from that do you think we are and why?
- kingludite 7y agoIt wont happen overnight (if at all). For hardware we are already there. We use a single cpu or video card that just works and cant be matched by combining a bunch of smaller components. We do have instances trying to combine the 2. We also have lots of and continue to have more software monoliths that at first are just to good, one wouldn't bother writing their own. Later we wont even remember how to do it and end up with a final design. Could be epic, could be aweful. (I mean every ready made thing available for use either for end users or programmers) Why? Software is a fantastic prototyping tool, its so good we don't bother making things into a chip. This for the most part because we wouldn't be able to update it. The need for updates will eventually go away. Things for now continue to be improved but at some point it stops making sense to do so. What [say] an email application should look like was completely unknown in the 80's but we all have expectations today. It seems unlikely for us to continue to write [say] new email clients from scratch forever?
- ken 7y agoThat’s called hardware. The whole point of software is that it’s soft.