the "i" was written in caps in the machine world in the sixties, failed in the 80s. since the end of the 90s they have to learn to function as "we"; allowed to be dumb as a single entity, but should react smart as collective to bring balance to the portfolio. no nationalism involved. on the other side, at least in alemaña, they still stress: "i-corporations".

waiting for the following line to appear: let programs make politics. they are social, they are semantical, equals they don't always have to know what they are doing. social smart swarm world application ¿closing the gap?

gestalt switch:

What convinced holdouts of Newton's theory of gravitation? According to Lakatos, it was Edmund Halley's successful prediction (to within a minute) of the return date of the comet that now bears his name. What tipped scientific opinion toward Einstein's theory of general relativity? The famous experiment in which the bending of light was observed during a solar eclipse. What's the equivalent in software development?

j. coplien: ... If I ask the analogous question for software, whether it really does live in some multi-dimensional world in the same sense that buildings do, they'll probably take away my license to do real work and suggest I go write poetry or something.'

i think that's the point when richard gabriel comes in. instead of bell he works at sun. interesting stuff is hidden under Onward!2002

'The Onward! Track contains technical and philosophical papers describing new paradigms or metaphors in computing, new thinking about objects, new framings of computational problems or systems, and new technologies.'

jeffrey o. kephart from ibm talked about 'autonomic computing' and 'biologically inspired software' and questions like the following have been raised:

How will programming quickly/slowly, in the large/in the small, with closed/open models and with highly structured/unstructured, organic approaches play out?

when i have more time i will try to find out how this was answered.

daniel dvorak talked about 'problematic encapsulation in high-risk systems' but what the hack is 'lean thinking'??