Positive Thoughts for the Future

As an end to the year, because I wish to leave some things for next year, and primarily because I've
exhausted my topics for the moment yet still wish to write, I've decided to list some pleasant ideas
regarding the future of computing that have occurred to me but which warrant nothing, by themselves.

Neural network nonsense has, like Bitcoin, helped breathe life into the idea of application-specific
integrated circuits (ASICs) to the common programmer; the future of computing is apparently close to
the physical limits for transistor size and speed with regards to various other constraints, leaving
specialized machinery the single best way to reduce power usage and increase performance.  A variety
of technologies enable designers to approach custom hardware, without paying the full costs thereof.
I can so very easily imagine an Object-Oriented future in which seas of interconnected hardware must
send messages to one another, achieving efficient computation through simple communication.  This is
a delightful way to conquer the issue of hardware concerns bubbling up through abstractions due to a
yearning for the best performance: Specialized hardware can be simultaneously exposed and abstracted
away through this simple idea, and I believe certainly it will be.  Future computations may resemble
a network design more than anything else, data-flow at its core, and such designs can't be defeated.

I often think about the observations on preserving technology regarding how man can still read books
written thousands of years prior and yet obsolete technology mere decades old has easily become both
damaged and unreadable.  Microfilm hasn't suffered this fate, despite its even older age.  The level
of the reader is the entire problem, with the literal rot of some formats a close second.  Long Tien
Nguyen and Alan Kay wrote about this topic to some degree, and I reviewed it years ago.  Despite his
hopes for a machine that can act as an ambassador, there's no replacement for storing information in
ways a man can read and understand with his eyes, naked or otherwise.  Defining mathematical symbols
in human language and then expressing programs in those symbols is clearly the correct way.  Despite
the long march of morons through the computing institutions, some sanity is slowly returning and the
proper mathematical approach is slowly becoming more popular as computers but become more important.
I already see certain critical systems rewritten with proper systems, as moronic lies are abandoned.

Even that damage done by systems used and discarded can be undone through the conversion of formats.
An instance of the original system still has its uses, in cutting the knot consisting of millions of
lines, in providing understanding and immediate conversion usable by the better system; this is true
even when that original system be deeply flawed, as is the common convention, leaving room for good.

The inevitable fall of communities on the Internet to machines convincingly acting as humans will in
all likelihood lead many to close ranks and go dark; others will do the same, in addition to putting
in place mechanisms to determine one's humanity.  The Internet with everything in the open was quite
entertaining, but it also led to doxing, harrassment, and yet other undesirable outcomes; it will be
good to see it disappear in all but name in the end, and all but the largest communities will accept
this as unavoidable.  I'll continue to enjoy screaming into the void as I've done for several years.
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