Future of Coding
Description
A classic "80-year predictions" episode. How did we do, humanity?
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- We're considering changing The Name of the FoC community, podcast, et cetera.
- Transatlantic Accent, and all the ships at sea.
- This episode's advertisements: Ex-Lax, Mifflin, et cetera.
- The New Media Reader is a good read(er).
- Blue Prince is surely everyone's 2025 GOTY. You'll find ample discussion of its twisty design in our bonus feed.
- Oppenheimer was probably my least favourite David Nolen movie.
- ENIAC was, for a time, the computer.
- Engelbart
- The Polaroid instant camera dates back to the 1940s!
- Google Glass and Ray-Ban Meta, sigh
- Wikipedia's List of Existing Technologies Predicted in Science Fiction
- Apparently microfilm and microfiche are both instances of microform.
- Boy Milk, no explanation needed.
- Sean M. Carroll, physicist.
- Claude Shannon, information theorist ;)
- AI Is Not Your Friend appeared in The Atlantic on May 9th, 2025.
- Amazon Mechanical Turk is "artificial artificial intelligence".
- Awesome GitHub lists
- Daring Fireball and Kottke.org are two long-running blogs that helped popularize the "linkblog" form.
- The Wirecutter was our previous top pick for product recommendations, but their history of shilling junk and our growing concerns about e-waste have led us to downgrade them in our rankings.
- Devine (the other Lu) maintains a pair of wikis, one for hundredrabbits and another for research and projects.
- Alexander Obenauer also does a lovely job publishing research notes.
- Unison and Dynamicland are two strong visions for the future of computing.
Music:
- lemon (tussed/screwed because everyone listens at 2x)
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