Meshing Developmental Evolution and Technology

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 26, 2005 @02:27PM from the where-are-my-flying-cars? dept.

Jerry23 writes "IT Conversations has free audio of a very provocative talk by futurist and developmental systems theorist, John Smart. He weaves a big-picture narrative featuring developmental evolution, technological acceleration, computational autonomy, the emergence and behavior of human social systems, why prediction has such a poor history, the unique growth properties of Information and Communication Technology and the limitations of biotech, finally culminating in his case for the inevitability of digital personality capture and a ubiquitous Linguistic User Interface. Among many other things, he asks 'What will Windows (and the Google Browser) of 2015 look like?'"

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Heres an analogy to prove it by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-26 14:32 · Score: -1, Troll

Ham is to eggs as Nazi Germany is to GNU/Linux

or for you old fashioned people:

Ham:Eggs :: Nazi Germany:GNU/Linux
No Change really by ZeekWatson · 2005-03-26 14:34 · Score: -1, Troll

I don't know if anyone's been paying attention, but the UI has basically stagnated since the mid nineties.

Is XP/KDE/Gnome really all that different from Windows 95 and Netscape 3.x?

And to answer my own question, no it is not.

Certainly no UI innovations are coming from FOSS -- all they can do is copy Micro$oft and Apple.
Re:Too Limited by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2005-03-26 15:49 · Score: 1, Troll

It will look like XP SP9, because Longhorn will be delayed once more. Duh.