The Computer Of The Next 200 Years

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
—Antoine de Saint Exupéry (paraphrased)

This is a series of posts about what the future of computing could look like. This series is as-yet unfinished.

principles

  1. 2025-07-05 • author—jyn

    operators, not users and programmers

  2. 2025-07-14 • author—jyn

    you are in a box

  3. generality through systems thinking

  4. strangler-patterning google3

tools

  1. 2025-06-30 • author—jyn

    complected and orthogonal persistence

  2. 2023-12-11 • author—jade

    the postmodern build system

  3. 2025-11-11 • author—jyn

    the terminal of the future

  4. capabilities, service management, and generalized erlang

  5. decentralized build caching

  6. editable programs

  7. operator controlled research

  8. trustfall and query planning

  9. composable compilers

implementation

  1. deterministic concurrent programs