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Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years

Posted by michael on from the things-to-sink-your-teeth-into dept.

terrapyn writes "Infoworld is reporting: 'A group of British computer scientists have proposed a number of grand challenges for IT that they hope will drive forward research, similar to the way the human genome project drove life sciences research through the 1990s.' Did they get it right? What are some other worthy computing challenges?"

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  1. I'm still waiting for things promised by Y2K by bigtallmofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about all the fanciful things we were supposed to have "By the year 2000!"?

    What a joke that turned out to be. I'm still making calls with an audio-only phone and I have yet to come across a practical hover-car.

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    1. Re:I'm still waiting for things promised by Y2K by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hover cars are redundant, since the way my wife drives, the tires rarely touch the road anyhow.

  2. Cell phones by Reignking · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we need to develop cell phones that can cook, clean, and drive my car. For $25. Oh, and I guess they need to be able to send and receive phone calls.

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  3. Most important goal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on people, we need to break the one million mark on the number of different text editors for unix based systems!

  4. A Slashdot Dupe Checker by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should be easy right? Never the less it has stumped slashdot editors for many many years.

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  5. Here's a challenge... by joshsnow · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are some other worthy computing challenges?

    Making Firefox on Linux as quick as Firefox on Windows... ;-)