{"id":143,"date":"2009-01-20T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-01-20T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T02:29:00","slug":"software-that-makes-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/software-that-makes-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Software that makes software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Interactions<\/span> magazine article that was a bit muddled but pointed out,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Industrial Revolution did not occur when we built steam engines, it occurred when we used steam engines to build steam engines. \u00a0The true information and computing revolution will not occur until we use software to build software; until we really use executable knowledge to create executable knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\tIt&#8217;s hard to know specifically what this will <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">look<\/span> like. \u00a0Will it be more machine-learning based, probabilistic like the human brain? \u00a0Analogy-centric? \u00a0Evolutionary? \u00a0Based on internet-scale knowledge? \u00a0In any case, I don&#8217;t doubt that the essential &#8220;meta&#8221; argument is true. \u00a0Without software that can build software, computers will remain pretty dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an Interactions magazine article that was a bit muddled but pointed out, The Industrial Revolution did not occur when we built steam engines, it occurred when we used steam engines to build steam engines. \u00a0The true information and computing revolution will not occur until we use software to build software; until we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/software-that-makes-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Software that makes software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}