The Software of Evermore

Koen Speelmeijer and Frank Delmelle

This article explores how the way we write software can be reinvented to keep the pace of our ever faster hardware.

(How) Will We Master Machines That Will Always Be Faster?

In this essay These Days' Koen Speelmeijer explores how the way we write software - i.e. instruct machines - can be reinvented to keep the pace of our ever faster hardware.

With Wolfram, Gödel, Hawking, Conway, Einstein e.a. Speelmeijer wonders how our slow human brains will master the near future's 'intelligent' and 'learning' machines.

If we're not to be "superseded" – surprised by the so-called singularity – the software of the future had better grab our attention soon, Speelmeijer argues.

How will we tell tomorrow's machines what exactly we want...

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