We all took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Today companies decide what tools you will use and the manner in which you use them, and are driven by profit, not progress.
And here’s why I find that at least a little demoralizing. Because the real secret they won’t tell you, heck, that I think is only dawning on a few people, is that today’s computing can’t take us into the future. It can’t provide true artificial intelligence or bring the kind of multiplication of effort that hackers take for granted to the masses. Computer science has utterly failed to tackle the real world problems, things like automating jobs so people don’t have to work, or working hand in hand with humans to explore solutions we have trouble seeing ourselves. We are so far from a Star Trek-style future utopia that it breaks my heart.
. . .
You should literally be able to tell it what you want it to do and it would do its darnedest to do a good job for you. Computers today are the opposite of that. They own you and bend you to their will. And I don’t think people fully realize how trapped we are within this aging infrastructure.
http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible
