我认为我们需要真正的新想法 在计算机的大部分领域，我 想知道有什么重要的吗 以及已经完成的强有力的任务 最近。如果我们真的找不到 他们，那么我们应该问“为什么? “我们该怎么办?”

在我看来，我们在计算领域没有那么多新想法，因为我们在很大程度上不需要它们。我们一直在挖掘旧的想法，并从中获得了很多东西，比如cpu速度的显著增长。

当我们因为“井干了”而需要新想法时，我们就会明白需求是发明之母。

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.

它提供了一种信息丰富的方式来传播信息和辩论。我发现它比标准的采访更具互动性，但没有博客评论那么嘈杂。

获取海量数据。

与上世纪80年代相比，我们现在所拥有的数据的规模和规模是巨大的。为了能够存储和显示这些东西，我们不得不对硬件和软件进行大量更改。总有一天，我们会真正学会如何筛选和挖掘有用的东西。有一天。

保罗。

回答“为什么新思想会消亡”和“如何应对”这两个问题?

I suspect a lot of the lack of progress is due to the massive influx of capital and entrenched wealth in the industry. Sounds counterintuitive, but I think it's become conventional wisdom that any new idea gets one shot; if it doesn't make it at the first try, it can't come back. It gets bought by someone with entrenched interests, or just FAILs, and the energy is gone. A couple examples are tablet computers, and integrated office software. The Newton and several others had real potential, but ended up (through competitive attrition and bad judgment) squandering their birthrights, killing whole categories. (I was especially fond of Ashton Tate's Framework; but I'm still stuck with Word and Excel).

怎么办呢?首先想到的是Wm。莎士比亚的建议:“让我们杀了所有的律师。”但恐怕他们现在装备太精良了。实际上，我认为最好的选择是找到某种开源计划。它们似乎比其他选择更好地保持可访问性和增量改进。但是这个行业已经变得足够大了，所以某种有机的合作机制是必要的。

I also think that there's a dynamic that says that the entrenched interests (especially platforms) require a substantial amount of change - churn - to justify continuing revenue streams; and this absorbs a lot of creative energy that could have been spent in better ways. Look how much time we spend treading water with the newest iteration from Microsoft or Sun or Linux or Firefox, making changes to systems that for the most part work fine already. It's not because they are evil, it's just built into the industry. There's no such thing as Stable Equilibrium; all the feedback mechanisms are positive, favoring change over stability. (Did you ever see a feature withdrawn, or a change retracted?)

关于SO的另一个讨论线索是臭鼬工厂综合症(参考:Geoffrey Moore):在大型组织中，真正的创新几乎总是(90%以上)出现在自发出现的未经授权的项目中，这些项目完全由个人或小团队的主动性推动(通常会受到正式的管理等级的反对)。所以:质疑权威，反抗体制。

我相信单元测试、TDD和持续集成是1980年之后的重大发明。