Greetings Economists,
On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:16 PM, raghu wrote:
What can Word 2007 do that Word 1995 could not?
Doyle;
Aside from easy answers like the machines are no longer available to
run word 1995, there is no specific way to calculate the changes.
This is sort of like Moore's law about transistors doubling every two
years.
Every time the chips advance they affect all sorts of ways of doing
processing. For reasons of economy an application can't anticipate
changes ten years in advance. In thinking about this I think the
error is in the concept of 'code' that can't give insight about
changes coming. Ubiquitous computing was anticipated in the industry
and kinds of 'general' processes can be estimated well in advance. I
have various engineering books that anticipate what is coming in a
rough way with no specific reference to how code comes along. These
show me that trying to understand developments by how coding can be
anticipated is very poorly understood. Further there is an uproar
about multi-core chips not having practical value because of coding
issues.
Many arguments are being made about the next level of coding which
automates away from writing code to building as it were sort of
architectural building blocks. And so on.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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