Telephones, Mechanical Turks and the Future of APIs

Mike Amundsen

Principal API Architect for CA / Layer 7

@mamund

Telephones, Mechanical Turks, and the Future of APIs

Charles Babbage Lady LovelaceSamuel Morse George Boole Alexander

Graham BellAlan Turing

Claude ShannonVannevar Bush

Douglas Engelbart Ted Nelson

Tim Berners-Lee

Roy T. Fielding

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."George Santayana, Life of Reason Vol. 1, 1905

"Those who ignore the mistakes of the future are bound to make them."Joseph D. Miller, 2006

The Time Is Close At Hand

“That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”-President R.B. Hayes, 1876

"The time is close at hand when the scattered members of civilized communities will be as closely united, so far as instant communication is concerned, as the various members of the body now are by the nervous system."

- Scientific American, 1880

"Young ladies are very much superior to boys They are steadier, do not drink beer, and are always on hand."- W. H. Eckert, 1881

Ghosts In The Machine

Let them eat cake!

Paris

London

Leipzig

DresdenAmsterdam

Paul I of RussiaBenjamin Franklin

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Napoleon I Catherine the GreatParis

Milan

London

New York

Boston

Philadelphia

Washington D.C.

Havana

Ignoring The Ghosts Of The Future

not sure

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008)

“A web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”-Tim Berners-Lee

“Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.”

-Wikipedia

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."George Santayana, Life of Reason Vol. 1, 1905

"Those who ignore the mistakes of the future are bound to make them."Joseph D. Miller, 2006

"Write programs that do one thing and do it well."- Douglas Mcilroy, 1978

"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together."- Douglas Mcilroy, 1978

"Those who ignore the mistakes of the future are bound to make them."Joseph D. Miller, 2006

Mike Amundsen

Principal API Architect for CA / Layer 7

@mamund

Telephones, Mechanical Turks, and the Future of APIs

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