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。”

我不知道是否有人已经回答了，“机器学习”作为一个重要的新发展，正在迅速发展。智能垃圾邮件过滤、股市预测、机器人等智能机器……

也许，机器智能会是下一个大事件。

运动传感器在游戏中的兴起，使传统的游戏操纵杆消失，让用户非常接近游戏本身。这与我们不断变化的城市景观和生活方式相辅相成，因为我们的身体活动有限。游戏的发展肯定会让人在做喜欢的事情时至少进行一些体育活动。这绝对比在健身房做同样单调的练习要好。

我认为在过去的50年里，一个非常重要的计算机发明是谷歌。如果没有一个好的搜索工具，互联网就毫无意义。搜索引擎的出现彻底改变了互联网，使它能够被小人物货币化。

fpga是1980年以后发明的重大突破。

增强现实

真实世界的视图与虚拟元素以某种方式结合在一起。

“虚拟现实”一词出现于1989年，比“增强现实”一词出现早了几年。

一些早期的使能技术是在1980年之前发明的，但这个概念本身可以追溯到90年代初(至少维基百科是这么说的)。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality#History