量子计算的数学在1980年之前就已经出现了，但硬件还没有出现，而且在未来许多年里可能在物理和经济上都不可行。

传感器网络:非常微小的(纳米级)计算机形成自组织p2p网络并传输“传感”信息。

3D打印:物理对象的《星际迷航》复制器(还没有Early Grey茶)。

DNA计算:针对某些类型问题的大规模并行计算。

函数式编程研究者对单子的重新发现。单子有助于让一种纯粹的、懒惰的语言(Haskell)成为一种实用的工具;它还影响了组合子库的设计(一元解析器组合子甚至在Python中找到了自己的方式)。

Moggi的“程序模块的范畴理论解释”(1989)通常被认为是将单子引入有效计算的观点;Wadler的作品(例如，“命令式函数式编程”(1993))将单子作为实用工具。

受保护的内存。在保护内存之前，如果你的程序犯了错误，你可以在任何地方开始执行代码——实际上总是挂起整个机器。没错，重启时间到了!

硬件成本低。我的第一台电脑在1978年花了500美元——这在当时是一笔巨款。降低成本让每个人的办公桌上都有了电脑。

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 !

用于人机交互的触摸屏和体感界面。

例如:

pda、iPhone或任天堂DS的触屏 运动感应，任天堂Wii控制器或(在较小程度上)Playstation 3的SixAxis控制器。

唯一的问题是…这些技术真的是80后吗?