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
20年前:面向对象编程——更好地处理软件复杂性。
现在:云计算——为了更好地处理硬件复杂性。
未来:说明性的东西，但它还需要20年。
其他回答
万维网已经被告知了，但更基本的，我会说“DNS”。 似乎它是在1983年发明的(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System)，恕我直言，我们可以认为它是互联网协议的发明和传播到世界各地的能力之间的强制性联系，现在被称为网络。
还是在“网络”部分，我要加上WIFI。它是在90年代发明的(但我同意它不完全是“计算”，而更多地与硬件有关)。
在更严格的“算法”部分，我想到了turbocodes(1993年);有人说它只是接近了香农信号理论所定义的极限，但这种论点难道不会否定所有其他对“一切都已经在洛夫莱斯、巴贝奇和图灵的作品中萌芽”的回答吗?
在密码学领域，我想加上P.Zimmermann(1991年)的PGP程序，它为公民带来了一个相当健壮的(当时)免费加密程序，并有助于动摇政府对加密的立场。事实上，我认为这是密码学“自由化”的因素之一，这是发展电子商务的前提。
The mouse - There have been posts about human interaction. To me, the mouse was the gateway to human interaction. Without it, we'd still be typing and not clicking in dragging, even with our fingers. GUI - Complimented the mouse perfectly. I work in an environment where an as400 is the backend of one of our major apps. Yeah.. Interesting stuff but it just reminds me of the screens 'Bill Gates' is working in in the movie 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' even though that's not what it was. To me, 1 and 2 are the reason anybody, including grandpas and grandmas can use a computer. Excel / spreadsheets - Someone mentioned this before but it's work mentioning again. It's so user friendly and is a great entry point for non-technical users to try their hand at simple programming concepts when performing calculations on cells. Granted it came out before 1980, but the versions post 1980 are when the technology in spreadsheets evolved. Internet (of course) - Not sure how people wrote code without it! Don't flame me for repeating because this belongs on every list. INTELLISENSE - LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!
光学计算。似乎它应该存在更长的时间，但我目前找不到任何早于1982年的参考资料(相关技术，光学晶体管，直到1986年才出现)。
作为Debian用户，我会投票给包管理。它让OSX和Windows 7看起来像是原始的业余玩物。
但是由于前面已经提到了包管理，我将投票给x。网络透明窗口服务器使许多应用程序成为可能。能够无缝地在同一屏幕上并行地调用在不同计算机上运行的程序真是太棒了。
这在80年代后期更令人印象深刻。
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 !
