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The groundwork isn't there. Computers were the result of blending Maxwell, Boolean algebra, and some fairly obscure speculations about computability in the most
by TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
The groundwork isn't there. Computers were the result of blending Maxwell, Boolean algebra, and some fairly obscure speculations about computability in the most abstract sense.
There's nothing equivalent waiting for someone to industrialise it. AI is being hammered together out of bits and pieces, but there's no Grand Theory. Robotics is the same, but further behind. Bio is similar but maybe a little ahead.
Physics and math just haven't primed the pump for another revolution.
- dTal 2y agoHow do you know? The pump could be primed with all sorts of obscure, non-obvious things the importance of which only becomes evident after the fact when someone combines them.
- kens 2y agoI think the importance of Boolean algebra and computability theory to early computers is vastly overstated. I see no influence of computability theory on ENIAC, for instance. As for Boolean algebra, it seems more descriptive than useful for early computers. But I'm very interested if people have counterexamples.