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What are some essential talks about the _future of coding?_ Talks that ask questions like _what could the future look like? Why is it important that it’s different? Why should we all care? What is possible? What is so wrong with computing today?_

Playlists or links to similar conversations are okay here too if you think it fits the criteria.

I’ll start!
Bret Victor’s _<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4|The Future of Programming>_ is a fun and historical retrospective (retrofuture?) and the one everyone should watch until they _get it_, then watch it all over again -&gt; <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII&amp;feature=emb_title|Inventing on Principle>

Alan Kay’s _<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY|The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet>_ is not only a superb title, but also packed full of important and impactful ideas.

Joe Armstrong’s seminal talk, _<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4|The Mess We’re In>_ makes a strong case that we are, in fact, in a mess.

Lastly, a talk I was not expecting to find so much value in, but one that clarified and fortified my ideas around decentralised tech i.e. blockchain. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0rZcpfF5dU|Crypto - The Future of Trust>

“The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.” — Bret Victor
“In the last 40 years we have written billions of line of code that will keep programmers employed for trillions of man hours in the next few thousand years to clean up the mess we’ve made” — Joe Armstrong

we need our slack solution so i can properly collect the right talks for this question lol

Totally!!! There is so much knowledge and community insights and right now not good enough search even on my own threads.

We Really Don't Know How to Compute!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk76BurH384>

This one is a bit scatter-brain, but it got me questioning the status quo in the first place:

(It's not as much about DCI as the description suggests. It's more about what's wrong with the state of software culture and practices)

<https://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-dci-architecture/|https://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-dci-architecture/>

While I do like good talks I think a kind of “future of coding” value/argument map could be more useful. Anyone feels in the same way ?

<@UJFN50C00> while I do agree (and internally I think about lots of things as a sort of _topology)_ I think to get there we’d probably have to gather talks, articles, quotes, software, and more before we had a chance of being able to compress it down into a 2D-3D space. 

<@U014WA16VNJ> do you have tools or finished visualisations of these topologys?