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
我喜欢把它叫做互联网
其他回答
HTM系统(分层时态记忆)。
人工智能的一种新方法，由杰夫·霍金斯通过《论智能》一书发起。
现在是一家名为Numenta的公司，通过开发“真正的”人工智能来测试这些想法，并邀请社区通过sdk使用该系统来参与。
它更多的是从头开始构建机器智能，而不是试图模仿人类的推理。
比特币解决了双重消费问题。它被用来创造去中心化的电子货币。一个名为Namecoin的变体使用相同的技术来构建一个分散的命名系统(类似于DNS)。
过去曾有人试图创建加密货币(这个想法当然并不新鲜)，但比特币似乎是第一个成功的实现。其独特的P2P算法在不依赖任何可信权威的情况下解决了双重花费问题。
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。”
(普遍)加密。没有加密，任何金融交易都不会发生。这仍然是一个需要更多创新和用户友好性的领域。
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.
