The Brave New World of Full Service Computing

Опубликовано 17 августа 2016, 21:22

For the past generation, the world of personal computing has been a world of self-service computing. The person using/owning a personal/self service computer is responsible for managing that computer themselves. All the digital chores - installing and updating software, preventing malware infection, backing up storage etc. are the userΓÇÖs responsibility. Today we are at an inflection point, as we transition to the world of full service computing. Network based services are positioned to take over the responsibilities of digital housekeeping. This transition carries both risks and opportunities in platform design, programming language design and development methodologies. We focus on the opportunities using the notion of objects as software services, being developed in the context of the Newspeak programming language.