Scripting News: 10/12/2006
You know how people who invent a technology can often look into the future better than people who grew up in it? Dave Winer is like that. I think it might be because they see the technology for what it, technologically, is. And they see it's limits.
We, who grew in with a technology, we just think the world is like that and how can we change it? Anyways, Dave:
A few years back we wrote about cars with interfaces for MP3 players, and now they're starting to make them. That's good. Okay, the next thing is to put fractional horsepower HTTP servers on board, with simple programming interfaces (I like XML-RPC because it interfaces easily with every programming language, but lower-level interfaces would be okay, just more work for the programmer). While you're at it, home theater systems should also have HTTP servers with programmable interfaces, so I can write a script on my desktop computer to move stuff over to the hard disk on the music system. Oh that's right they don't have hard disks. Add one, okay? They're really cheap.
Source: Scripting News: 10/12/2006
# Oct 12, 2006