We Cannot Predict The Future, But We

The Idea That Hardware On Networks Should Just Be Caches For Movable Process Descriptions And The Processes Themselves Goes Back Quite A Ways. There's A Real Sense In Which Ms And Apple Never Understood Networking Or Operating Systems (or What Objects Really Are), And When They Decided To Beef Up Their Oss, They Went To (different) Very Old Bad Mainframe Models Of Os Design To Try To Adapt To Personal Computers.

The Future Is Not Laid Out On A Track. It Is Something That We Can Decide, And To The Extent That We Do Not Violate Any Known Laws Of The Universe, We Can Probably Make It Work The Way That We Want To.

The Tree Of Research Must Be Fed From Time To Time With The Blood Of Bean-counters, For It Is Its Natural Manure.

The Result Is - Document Destruction - We're Really Not Going To Be Able To Prove Beyond A Truth The Negatives And Some Of The Positive Conclusions That We're Going To Come To. There Will Be Always Unresolved Ambiguity Here.

To Get The Medium's Magic To Work For One's Aims Rather Than Against Them Is To Attain Literacy.