Our first tip this week is a response to an earlier tip and request to submit what you thought would be considered prehistoric in BI in the next century. It was sent in by Alan Melcalfe of Internet Business Systems.
Our children in the next century, when e-business is as ubiquitous as the telephone, will wonder why it took us so long to realize that the way that we are now building computer software is wrong. We now talk about the problems of integration, interoperability, and dream of ubiquity, without realizing that it is the way we build software today that is the problem. Creative freedom is a wonderful thing, but it has created the disintegrated mess of systems that we now have in the world that can't be integrated and made interoperable as required for ubiquitous e-business.
W3C's Tim Berners-Lee realizes this problem as he searched for a way to transform the Web into a Semantic Web. British computer genius Alan Turing who built the enigma machine during WWII realized this problem back in the fifties when he spoke about the need for an "equation-solving machine." However, we have abandoned the hope of such technology. I have been working in this area for the past 15 years and am now building what I believe will be the basis for equation solving machines. When they happen, as they will, we will look back a wonder why we were so foolish to do what we have done.
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This was first published in September 2002
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