— I heard this somewhere…
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IT programming languages are evolving toward object-orientation.
And they are gradually becoming semantic. (Objects with classification, optimization, transformation, utilization, and extensibility.)
After that, what comes is flow.
This applies not only to IT, but also to spaces, people, and lifestyles.
( the popularization of art, DSLR, fixie bicycles, social networks, N-SCREEN, content-driven corporate culture, etc. )
Things are gradually changing.
Direction and identity are taking precedence over external appearance (scale, economic power, fame) and specs (performance).
Intent and motive are becoming important.A flow will form in which actions, products, and markets carrying authenticity—like indie culture and Che Guevara—come to dominate.
Rather than being standardized or having better performance, what matters is what is more optimized for me, or what I can more easily share and communicate with others.
Through the development of social systems and technology, most of the roles humans used to perform have been taken over by automation and social institutions. (For example, during the Industrial Revolution, workers, anxious that machines would take away their jobs, held large rallies to smash factory machinery. When Edison invented the phonograph, musicians opposed it and went into large-scale protests. Napster created a site for sharing music in a new file format called mp3, but due to resistance from most record companies, it eventually shut down—and at the same time, the record companies themselves shut down one after another.)
Software (information, fuel efficiency, college life) is becoming more important than hardware (data, ownership of cars, college admission), and that software is gradually being semantically classified, reprocessed, and spread to other members.
In that process, countless pieces of software are mass-produced.
What sustains the ones that survive among that mass of software is, precisely, authenticity and attitude.
In the end, humans are gradually... becoming more faithful to their most human parts.
