Yes, thanks, there are a few of us stretching back to babbage (even voltair), and more recently and more succinctly by schrodinger in his seminal "what is life" essay.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Kann <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:08 PM To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue Randall, Take it up with this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat He's spent thirty-five years thinking about the same issues. --- On Sun, 5/2/10, Randall Reetz <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Randall Reetz <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue > To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 4:39 PM > OK, Ian, I promised I would respond > and here goes. Sorry I didn't before, I had assumed > your questions were rhetorical. > > When I say that software hasn't changed I mean to say that > it hasn't jumped qualitative categories. We are still > living in a world where computing exists as pre-written and > compiled software that is blindly executed by machines and > stacked foundational code that has no idea what it is > processing, can only process linearly, all semantics have > been stripped, it doesn't learn from experience or react to > context unless this too has been pre-codified and frozen in > binary or byte code, etc. etc etc. Hardware has been > souped up. So our little wrote tricks can be made more > elaborate within the substantial confines mentioned. > These same in-paradigm restrictions apply to both the > software users slog through and the software we use to write > software. > > As a result, these very plastic machines with mercurial > potential are reduced to simple players that react to user > interrupts. They are sequencing systems, not unlike > the lead type setting racks of Guttenburg-era printing > presses. Sure we have taught them some interesting > seeming tricks – if you can represent something as digital > media, be it sound, video, multi-dimentional graph space, > markup – our sequencer doesn't know enough to care. > > Current [The entire original message is not included] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
