> as he converted the problem to his notation, "here's where the miracle occurs" Exactly what I see to be the future of all types of engineering, computer cont

> as he converted the problem to his notation, "here's where the miracle occurs" Exactly what I see to be the future of all types of engineering, computer control, and interaction - e.g. programming languages, circuit engineering, database query languages, all types of problem solving. The future of all of these is just to very directly describe to the computer the problem you want to solve, in a way that is a very direct representation of the way you think through the problem, with nearly zero translation between the way we approach the problem and the way we communicate the problem to the computer. To me, this perfectly describes the evolution from C/Java to Perl to Python. The shift from highly relational SQL to Document-based noSQL databases. The shift from bladed weapons, to point & shoot guns. The way you interact with a doctor or future doctor AI, and it will infer from your layman description what you're really communicating and then synthesizes that into a possibly multi-iteration search strategy for solving the problem. Today, the ability of tech to achieve this still holds us back substantially. Over time though, we'll continue to converge to a way of communicating our creations and desires to computers, using some kind of language or interaction that requires us to do no intermediate translation. In many places, I think we're not actually that far off from this, for some tasks. Over time, our interaction methods won't get more strange and hard to learn, but strangely more familiar and natural.