上世纪八十年代初，施乐帕洛阿尔托研究中心对计算机蠕虫进行了研究。

摘自John Shoch和Jon Hupp的“蠕虫”程序——分布式计算的早期经验”(ACM通讯，1982年3月，第25卷第3期，172-180页，1982年3月):

In The Shockwave Rider, J. Brunner developed the notion of an omnipotent "tapeworm" program running loose through a network of computers - an idea which may seem rather disturbing, but which is also quite beyond our current capabilities. The basic model, however, remains a very provocative one: a program or a computation that can move from machine to machine, harnessing resources as needed, and replicating itself when necessary. In a similar vein, we once described a computational model based upon the classic science-fiction film, The Blob: a program that started out running in one machine, but as its appetite for computing cycles grew, it could reach out, find unused machines, and grow to encompass those resources. In the middle of the night, such a program could mobilize hundreds of machines in one building; in the morning, as users reclaimed their machines, the "blob" would have to retreat in an orderly manner, gathering up the intermediate results of its computation. Holed up in one or two machines during the day, the program could emerge again later as resources became available, again expanding the computation. (This affinity for nighttime exploration led one researcher to describe these as "vampire programs.")

引用艾伦·凯的话:“预测未来最好的方法就是创造未来。”

采用面向对象。

这个想法早前就出现了(例如Simula)，但在20世纪90年代成为主流。(恕我直言，它最大的好处之一是在开发人员之间提供了一个通用的词汇表，所以它的广泛采用使它更有价值。)

I'd say the biggest trend is an ever increasing lack of location dependence and pervasiveness. An interesting philosophical exercise these days is to count the computers in you immediate area. They're everywhere desktops, keyboards, microwaves, radios, televisions, cell phones etc... My grandmother computer is illiterate however her life is as infested with small computers as everyone else's. She can make a call to me from the middle of an empty field. I can then answer that call zipping down the highway.

我认为这些答案的部分问题是，它们要么没有得到充分的研究，要么是在尝试一种新的实现或一些已经看到重大“改进”的技术。然而，这并不是一项重大发明。例如，任何关于函数式编程或面向对象编程的讨论都是失败的;这些想法在大多数SO参与者出生之前就已经流传了。

在虚拟世界中，你由虚拟的另一个自我(又名阿凡达)代表，用于社交和角色扮演。

最常被称为mmo -大规模(ly)多人在线。一些流行的例子包括《魔兽世界》、《无尽的任务》和《第二人生》。

PS:不，他们仍然不需要像80年代极客电影中典型的那样戴着沉重的帽子。真可惜....

在操作系统核心开发中使用函数式编程/语言。