Everything old is new again: the logical endpoint of "everything should speak one protocol" is "everything should respond to natural language". Perhaps things w

Everything old is new again: the logical endpoint of "everything should speak one protocol" is "everything should respond to natural language". Perhaps things will turn out differently this time than the _last_ "expert systems" hype-wave in the 90s. OTOH, SQL was _literally_ supposed to be the '70s natural-ish language replacement for writing explicit code to scan database tables...