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Adam Wiggins
May 06, 2012
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Hackability: the future of programming in a post-PC world
Future Insights keynote on hackability, modern compute platforms, and the Maker movement.
Adam Wiggins
May 06, 2012
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Transcript
Hackability the future of programming in a post-PC world Adam
Wiggins Future Insights May 2012 Sunday, May 6, 2012
About me Sunday, May 6, 2012
I love to make things which help other people make
things Sunday, May 6, 2012
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...so I think a lot about hackability Sunday, May 6,
2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
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Phones? Pocket computers connected to a cell network. Sunday, May
6, 2012
Game consoles? PCs with a game controller instead of a
keyboard and mouse. Sunday, May 6, 2012
Books? Electronic content downloaded into your ereader. Sunday, May 6,
2012
Cars, planes? Computers you can ride in. Sunday, May 6,
2012
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our computer- embroidered reality “ ” Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
the ability to modify behavior of the tools and devices
we use—at any level of depth hack·a·bil·i·ty noun Sunday, May 6, 2012
For computers, hackability means programming Sunday, May 6, 2012
Hackability is empowerment, freedom, and taps humanity’s wells of creativity
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In a computer- embroidered reality, hackability is more important than
ever Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Ten years ago: client & server pretty much the same
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Now: specialized Sunday, May 6, 2012
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Provision server- side compute via API Sunday, May 6, 2012
Server-side platform is now “The Cloud” Sunday, May 6, 2012
Infrastructure-as- a-service abstracts away the hardware Sunday, May 6, 2012
AWS now runs 1% of the internet http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/04/18/how-big-is-amazons-cloud/ Sunday, May
6, 2012
Platform-as-a- service abstracts away servers Sunday, May 6, 2012
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Runs “apps” as discrete units Sunday, May 6, 2012
Apps are coupled to their data — no general filesystem
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Local storage is just a cache Sunday, May 6, 2012
The canonical source is the cloud Sunday, May 6, 2012
Clients are both more sophisticated and thinner than ever Sunday,
May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Specialized platforms come with more restrictions Sunday, May 6, 2012
http://davemartorana.com/logs/software/os-x-mountain- lion-10-8-is-not-good-news-for-developers/ Sunday, May 6, 2012
http://al3x.net/2010/01/28/ipad.html Sunday, May 6, 2012
General-purpose computing: unfettered access to system resources Sunday, May 6,
2012
Specialized computing: isolation via sandboxing Sunday, May 6, 2012
Client-side sandboxing (e.g. iOS, Android, Chrome) Sunday, May 6, 2012
EC2 sandboxing: Xen virtualization http://www.xen.org/ Sunday, May 6, 2012
Heroku sandboxing: dynos http://www.heroku.com/how/scale Sunday, May 6, 2012
Sandboxing has benefits, but creates restrictions Sunday, May 6, 2012
We can’t go backward Sunday, May 6, 2012
How do we enable hackability on the new platforms? Sunday,
May 6, 2012
I don't know Sunday, May 6, 2012
Looking to an adjacent field for inspiration Sunday, May 6,
2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Table of contents 1.The world is made of computers 2.Defining
“hackability” 3.Modern compute platforms 4.Hackability at risk? 5.Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Maker: DIY turned up to 11 Sunday, May 6, 2012
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/big-diy/all/1 Sunday, May 6, 2012
Digital world vs Physical world Sunday, May 6, 2012
I.R.L. Sunday, May 6, 2012
Maker movement is blurring that line Sunday, May 6, 2012
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3D printing Sunday, May 6, 2012
MakerBot Sunday, May 6, 2012
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RepRap Sunday, May 6, 2012
CNC Sunday, May 6, 2012
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaVr89FO_FE Video example Sunday, May 6, 2012
M6T1 G0G90G54X5.Y0S3000M3 G43H1Z2./M8 Z.1 G1Z0F50. G91G41D1X1.5F18. G3I-1.5Z-.104L5 I-1.5 Sunday, May
6, 2012
Other cool maker stuff Sunday, May 6, 2012
Arduino Sunday, May 6, 2012
Kinect hacking Sunday, May 6, 2012
Hackability in reach for kids and adult hobbyists Sunday, May
6, 2012
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What can software hacking learn from Maker movement? ? Sunday,
May 6, 2012
Conclusion Sunday, May 6, 2012
In our computer- embroidered reality, hackability is more important than
ever Sunday, May 6, 2012
General-purpose computing is giving way to specialized platforms Sunday, May
6, 2012
That’s mostly good Sunday, May 6, 2012
But we don’t want to lose the hackability of computing
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Take inspiration from the Maker movement Sunday, May 6, 2012
Maker movement shows that anything can be made hackable Sunday,
May 6, 2012
...and made accessible to everyone Sunday, May 6, 2012
Let’s shape a hackable future for computing Sunday, May 6,
2012
[end] Adam Wiggins @hirodusk http://adam.heroku.com/ Sunday, May 6, 2012