这个问题来自于对过去50年左右计算领域各种进展的评论。
其他一些与会者请我把这个问题作为一个问题向整个论坛提出。
这里的基本思想不是抨击事物的现状，而是试图理解提出基本新思想和原则的过程。
我认为我们在大多数计算领域都需要真正的新想法，我想知道最近已经完成的任何重要而有力的想法。如果我们真的找不到他们，那么我们应该问“为什么?”和“我们应该做什么?”
当前回答
X.500和X.500系列标准(大约1988年)。虽然x.500标准的灵感来自于几十年前的电信标准，但它们具有重要意义，因为它们为LDAP/AD的广泛使用以及我们目前使用的x.509证书铺平了道路。
其他回答
互联网本身早于1980年，但由蒂姆·伯纳斯-李提出并实现的万维网(“通过简单机制分布式超文本”)始于1989/90年。
虽然超文本的概念以前就存在(Nelson的Xanadu曾尝试实现分布式方案)，但WWW是实现分布式超文本系统的一种新方法。Berners-Lee以一种强大且易于实现的方式将简单的客户机-服务器协议、标记语言和寻址方案结合在一起。
我认为大多数创新都是以一种原创的方式重新组合现有的作品。万维网的每一部分以前都以某种形式存在过，但两者的结合只有在事后才变得明显。
我确信你现在正在使用它。
设计模式使计算机科学更接近计算机工程。 GPS和互联网地址查找基于位置的交互。 面向服务的体系结构。
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.
如果我们作为一个团体认真地回答这个问题。 不幸的是，我相信我们需要的不仅仅是一串随机的善意的帖子! 我知道，这听起来很无聊，但经常把事情做完才是!
We Write a list of powerful ideas in the area of computing Maybe we should define a few categories to separate each one because videoconference somehow does not fit well with object oriented programming. Seeing ideas by categories makes it easier to generate them without redundancy. It's too easy to sidetrack in teleportation if quantum computing is not kept away from flying cars. Try to attribute each of them a date This will settle the before/after 1980 and restrict debate about each idea to its own. It will be fun to dig for earliest reference, first known implementation, etc. Plus this will allow people like me who were 2 years old in 1980 to have a better idea of what was common programming knowledge in 1980 (nothing beats being there at the time) Try to attribute each of them the current state of their implementation Ok, some idea were sci-fi in 1850, with early development in the 1970 and serious improvement breakthrough in the 1990. Some ideas are just starting to get around. Some are almost forgotten. Probably the wiki thing is a good idea. I think this could really get somewhere if slightly organized. I did not check, but maybe this whole thing already exist already on the net (I usually find that if you think about something, someone already did it). What do you think ? Cheers !
我喜欢把它叫做互联网
