Paper Info
Title
The End of the Computing Era: Hephaestus Meets the Olympians
Abstract
Our Digital World is becoming increasingly real (and vice versa), is being extended to include the physical world, and is growing in size, scope, and significance apparently on its own trajectory. The elimination of the ancient boundaries of time, space, location, and organizational structure appear to be unleashing social and other forces that threaten to disrupt real and automated systems replacing them with organically evolving digital ecosystems. Yet at the threshold of these amazing changes do we have the tools to understand, design, or harness these changes for safety, improvement, innovation, and economic growth? In ancient times, Hephaestus, the Greek god of technology, devised cunning machines with which to right transgressions only to find that his machines aggravated problems that were beyond his understanding. This talk will briefly review the amazing growth of the Web and of our increasingly digital world as indicators of two fundamental shifts. We will first look at the End of the Computing Era and the emergence of the Problem Solving Era in which the problem owners attempt to solve problems with increasing realism and complexity aided by technology - not vice versa. Second, we will examine the emergence of a fundamentally more flexible, adaptive, and dynamic computing, Computer Science 2.0, and how it might serve the next generation of problem solving with its pillars of semantic technologies, service-oriented computing, and the semantic web.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-69824-1_1
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
devised cunning machines with which to right transgressions only to find that his machines aggravated problems that were beyond his understanding.,hephaestus,the greek god of technology,in ancient times,semantic technologies,software engineering,organizational structure,business,economics,economic growth,computer science,service oriented computing,programming,semantic web
Data science,Semantic technology,Organizational structure,Computer science,Semantic Web,Hephaestus,Realism
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
11
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael L. Brodie11005626.90