[Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

[Ed Wilson]

OH NO, The Matrix is next!

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From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of Mike
Martinet
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:47 PM
To: tfug at tfug.org; tfug at tfug.org
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Punched cards and paper tape.

>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:58:25 -0700
>From: Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>
<...>
>Card-puncher here :)  (I still use them as note cards)
>
<...>
>I see programmers becoming a very (relative to today) small group of 
>people that manage, maintain, augment and service the behemoth systems 
>running in the cloud.
>
>As for when... it is already happening...
>
>

That's really an elegant vision - people will always have desires, needs.
So, instead of directly programming machines to approximate solutions, we
will instead "guide" machines to satisfy our desires/needs.

Until, of course, the machines enslave us all...

:)

MjM

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