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Re:No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] by nickpinkston on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:43PM (#20835311)
It never works until it does. Many major inventions seemed impossible, but they just took a long time. Software is so young and growing so fast, it's hard to say what can happen.
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Re:No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] by coldtea on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:58AM (#20836455)
>It never works until it does. Many major inventions seemed impossible, but they just took a long time.

And others remained impossible still, e.g. cold fusion.

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Re:No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] by nickpinkston on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:13PM (#20842766)
They mostly remain unsolved, not impossible.

Cold fusion not withstanding, most aren't prohibited by physics - in fact humans already are an existence proof that bio-machines can already create software autonomously with no change in physics, so seems like a question of when, not if.

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