14 years?
14 years?
Posted Apr 24, 2003 22:29 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104)In reply to: 14 years? by cwong15
Parent article: O'Reilly First to Adopt Founders' Copyright
We might. Every industry has fast and slow times. Computer industry is no exception. Futurists of the 1950s predicted that we would have flying card by now, but couldn't predict the Internet. That's because aviation was a hot topic back then. Today, making a aircraft 20% faster is a big deal, but nobody will invest billions into making a computer that is 20% faster than what we have now.
I'm sure that Java will be around in 2017, and so will DNS (although the underlying protocols may change). A lot of free software we are running today will be around. Perhaps recompiled for new processors, perhaps with stronger security embedded into the hardware and the programming language. But it will be there, and specialists will need books about that software.