收缩包装软件

在1980年以前，软件大多是专门编写的。如果你经营一家企业，想要计算机化，你通常会有一台计算机、编译器和数据库，然后自己写东西。业务软件通常是为适应业务实践而编写的。这并不是说没有固定的软件(我在1980年之前使用SPSS)，但这不是常态，我看到的往往是基础设施和研究软件。

现在，你可以去电脑商店，在货架上找到经营小生意所需的一切。它的设计并不是为了无缝地适应您曾经拥有的任何实践，但是一旦您学会或多或少地按照它的工作流程工作，它就会很好地工作。像SAP和仁科(PeopleSoft)这样的大企业比过去更接近于收缩包装。

这并不是一个彻底的突破，但在1980年之后，有一个非常明确的转变，从昂贵的定制软件到低成本的现成软件，灵活性从软件转移到业务流程。

它还影响了软件的经济性。定制软件解决方案可以盈利，但无法规模化。你只能向一个客户收取这么多钱，你不能把同样的东西卖给多个客户。使用收缩包装软件，你可以卖出很多很多相同的东西，在一个非常大的销售基础上摊销开发成本。(你必须提供支持，但这是有限度的。就当这是销售软件的边际成本吧。)

Theoretically, where there are big winners from a change, there are going to be losers. So far, the business of software has kept expanding, so that as areas become commoditized other areas open up. This is likely to come to an end sometime, and moderately talented developers will find themselves in a real crunch, unable to work for the big boys and crowded out of the market. (This presumably happens for other fields; I suspect the demand for accountants is much smaller than it would be without QuickBooks and the like.)

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 !

运动传感器在游戏中的兴起，使传统的游戏操纵杆消失，让用户非常接近游戏本身。这与我们不断变化的城市景观和生活方式相辅相成，因为我们的身体活动有限。游戏的发展肯定会让人在做喜欢的事情时至少进行一些体育活动。这绝对比在健身房做同样单调的练习要好。

基础设施的改变使家庭和办公室都能接入互联网。

记录并接受了从W3C到api的标准

除此之外，我们所认为的大多数新事物都比你想象的要久远得多(例如GUI, OOP)。

JIT编译是在20世纪80年代末发明的。

我想说的是Linux和“越坏越好”哲学的具体化，但你也可以说这些都是更古老的。 所以我会说:量子，化学，肽，dna和膜计算，(重新)以一种非特别的方式和自动化，方面，泛型编程，一些类型的类型推断，一些类型的测试，

我们没有新想法的原因是:专利(这来自60年代末…)，公司和教育。