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Allen Wirfs-Brock

Follow up: TC39 meets Node.js Modules

James Snell of IBM wrote an excellent report on the discussions at this week’s TC39 meeting concerning the integration of Node.js modules…

Sep 30, 2016

Follow up: TC39 meets Node.js Modules

Sep 30, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

How to Invent the Future

Alan Kay famously said “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” But how do we go about inventing a future that isn’t a simple…

May 3, 2016

How to Invent the Future

May 3, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bite: Survival of the Fittest

The first ten or fifteen years of a computing era is a period of chaotic experimentation. Early product concepts rapidly evolve via both…

Apr 25, 2016

Slide Bite: Survival of the Fittest

Apr 25, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bite: Early Era Products

The chaotic early days of a new computing era is an extended period of product innovation and experimentation. But both the form and…

Apr 21, 2016

Slide Bite: Early Era Products

Apr 21, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bite: Grassroots Innovation

How do we know when we are entering a new computing era? One signal is a reemergence of grassroots innovation. Early in a computing era…

Apr 19, 2016

Slide Bite: Grassroots Innovation

Apr 19, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bit: From Chaos

At the beginning of a new computing era, it’s fairly easy to sketch a long-term vision of the era. All it takes is knowledge of current…

Apr 18, 2016

Slide Bit: From Chaos

Apr 18, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bite: The Ambient Computing Era

In the Ambient Computing Era humans live in a rich environment of communicating computer enhanced devices interoperating with a ubiquitous…

Apr 16, 2016

Slide Bite: The Ambient Computing Era

Apr 16, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bite: Transitional Technologies

A transitional technology is a technology that emerges as a computing era settles into maturity and which is a precursor to the successor…

Apr 15, 2016

Slide Bite: Transitional Technologies

Apr 15, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Slide Bite: Computing Eras Aren’t About Hardware

Computing “generations” used to be defined by changing computer hardware. Not anymore. The evolution of computing hardware (and software)…

Apr 14, 2016

Slide Bite: Computing Eras Aren’t About Hardware

Apr 14, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Redux | The Third Era of Computing

In 2011 I wrote a blog post where I present the big picture model I use for thinking about what some people were calling the “post-PC…

Mar 21, 2016

Redux | The Third Era of Computing

Mar 21, 2016

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Allen Wirfs-Brock

Dreaming and building the future of software; Project Editor of the ECMAScript 2015 Language Specification; Reformed Smalltalker.

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