>all about minute incremental improvements ...how much of that is due to the fact that CS is now much more of a mature field compared to 44 years ago. It seem

>all about minute incremental improvements ...how much of that is due to the fact that CS is now much more of a mature field compared to 44 years ago. It seems like the fields of synthetic biology and biological and chemical computers and self replicating nanobots (hey Von Neumann again) would be more open to grand scale ideas, and there are lots of exciting opportunities that haven't been explored. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocomputer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocomputer http://phys.org/news/2014-01-slime-molds.html http://phys.org/news/2014-01-slime-molds.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine#von_Neumann.27s_kinematic_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine#von_Ne...