The Future

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A fast retrospective that measures past leaps and makes concrete forecasts: CPU clocks go from 66 MHz Pentium to gigahertz-class, disk sizes from 500 MB in a PC to terabyte-scale home drives, web growth from thousands to millions of sites, and mobile data and pagers become ubiquitous. Databases add triggers, distributed support and two‑phase commit (Oracle cited), languages shift toward higher-level and scripting options, distributed transactions and sagas appear, and tooling for refactoring and automated language migration becomes essential; conclusion: industry must try neglected ideas and simplify systems.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:41Tech growth in 1994
3. 13:35Programming languages evolution
4. 26:51Future of development challenges
5. 44:26Development models and open source
6. 58:12Simplification philosophy and critical thinking
7. 1:00:43Q&A

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