Programming the world

There will come a point when our physical objects and our virtual objects weave together seamlessly. With our smart glasses, we will be able to look at our toaster, our vacuum cleaner or our household robot, and see all sorts of virtual controls.

At that point various sorts of “consumer friendly” programming languages will become more relevant. Programming the world around us won’t just be something we do when we find ourselves in front of a computer screen.

It will be something that you can do anywhere and any time. And it will be a way to customize the world around you.

I am sure that those future programming languages will be very different from Javascript or C++. They will be intended to be used by people who don’t consider themselves programmers.

Maybe learning such languages will be considered a fundamental form of literacy, taught to school children the way we now teach reading and writing. As those children grow up, they may look back at our current era and marvel that we managed to get by with the benefit of such a basic form of literacy.

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