Note that I’m commenting in the spirit of “being ok to dream”, as the article promoted. There’s only so much creativity available for software engineers to wor

Note that I’m commenting in the spirit of “being ok to dream”, as the article promoted. There’s only so much creativity available for software engineers to work around the fundamental constraints imposed by the lower levels. Software Engineering being a highly demanded skill, I strongly believe, is a reflection of how inefficient are the interlaces of standard architectures and processes. It reminds me of the Curse of Lisp, which, roughly, states that the reason for its lack of popularity and absence of large communities of developers stems from it being too powerful of a language, when compared, say, to Java. OSes are monstrosities struggling to keep pace with demand. The very concept and handling of the File is limiting and obsolete. It’s not an ideal building block for databases. Another is the fact that we have generalized compute but not storage. Memory and Storage are synonyms, so I imagine the ideal scenario is for both to be a single entity. I mean, the memory hierarchy should be flattened in the future. If this happens concurrently with an increase in capacity sufficient to emulate an infinite tape, then a number of today’s cutting edge software architectures will become relics — memories of a time when computers were not as cooperative and malleable as we needed them to be. The information revolution is just beginning, after all, and I absolutely love the fact that the path forward will be paved, primarily, by the collective effort of a multitude of creative minds, as always. Great article.