> In general my computer does about exactly what i envisioned 15 years > ago whilst it was not possible yet.
I should now go into a tirade about the price we pay for the features the marketing departments are foisting on us, but of course, it is not all bad (I'm not sure if I can call my Galaxy S5 a cloud or the silver lining) and what is very good is very, very advanced. Precisely why we don't want it to become, as it is certainly going to become "indistinguishable from magic". If that does not worry you and you are OK with children who won't even know that there is such a thing as a machine-dependent "assembler", then no further conversation is possible. To me, moving science out of technology (how does it work?) is beyond dangerous. Where you can no longer predict the behaviour of non-deterministic programs, you find yourself in a place far too similar to Nature, where only the strong survive. Lucio.
