This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW
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Dylan Beattie - Consultant, Software Developer & Creator of the Rockstar Programming Language @DylanBeattie

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ABSTRACT
Technological progress is non-linear. Sometimes, innovation is a smooth curve; hundreds of small, incremental improvements over many years – until something comes along that changes the game; something that fundamentally challenges our assumptions around what technology can achieve. Within the last few decades, technology has profoundly and irreversibly changed the shape of human society; how we work, how we relax, how we communicate and collaborate. And, in almost every case, the key has been digitalisation: the ability to take transform part of our reality into a stream of bits.

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to see the tipping points, to identify the moments when a particular technology or idea achieved critical mass, when something went from being an interesting prototype to a viable product – but for people who were there at the time, it often wasn’t nearly so obvious. In an industry that’s perpetually excited about the “next big thing”, how do developers and technologists decide what to focus on? Should we be thinking about augmented reality? Will machine learning replace developers? Is AI a fun toy, a useful tool – or an existential threat to humanity?

Join Dylan Beattie for an entertaining look at the innovations that really did change the world (and a few that didn’t!), and how understanding our history can help us make sense of the next digital revolution – whatever that turns out to be. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
03:55 Tipping points
05:20 Film vs digital cameras
12:52 Music industry
16:34 GenAI
20:14 Books
24:39 Stack Overflow
26:03 Will AI replace software engineers?
31:00 Kodak Super 8
32:54 DALL-E
36:39 ChatGPT
42:24 Alice & Bob
44:42 https://solidproject.org
46:17 Social media
52:43 Conclusion
58:07 Outro

Read the full abstract here:
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Roger Penrose • The Emperor's New Mind • https://amzn.to/49sLkAO
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5 • https://amzn.to/3GAPzN7
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four) • https://amzn.to/3sPJ8yk
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U

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