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What would you do in a hundred years?

When people normally think about a hundred years they might think that we are living in the jetsons tv show. In this case, we might think that there will be some flying cars and buildings will not be on Warth, but over the sky; robots will help us and that we will have spaceships that will turn to briefcases. 

In this case,  what the reading is about, is what will happen in these cases, where we have more than enough processing power than we are supposed to do and what we will do as programmers.  Nowadays, we have been studying how to do the simplest programs, to understand the programming languages,  and as we've been going through the mayor,  we find out new ways to solve them using in a more efficient way our processing.

What we have not been considering is that computer processing,  has been evolving and the way we program, the way computer understand us and the necessities that we need to solve. In this case,  we have been evolving from using computers as big as a football court to a cellphone, where we can access the internet and even add new stuff.  In other areas, we have seen that computers are using new technologies such as quantics, dividing the jobs that a single microprocessor can do, and even create specific processors for specific duties. All of the above,  with the idea that these are becoming bigger in space but smaller in size. 

This has become a problem in programming languages due to the fact that the implementation of the programming languages become useless. People do not focus on these details and to change the way the implementation is harder than using another programming language that can do the same,and better in the computer elements. 
 

I think that rather to think in what would happen in the future with the programming languages, how do they work and how will they be improving, we need to focus on the fact that our area has a big opportunity to evolve by making better software architectures and software engineering. Also we need to consider that some of these changes are not even affecting people that normally uses technology, so we need to consider that  the improvements will affect them, but it will take longer to get to them, and to get to that way we need to promote between us a better way to solve their problems.

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