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2050: Computing Beyond the Computer
11 vignettes on computing in 2050 using the Inflect paradigm
What if you never typed a password again? Never installed an app? Never searched for a file across three devices? This book walks through a single day in 2050 — a world where computing has become as invisible as electricity, and the human is finally the center of their own digital existence. Not a technical argument. A daydream with blueprints.
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This book is a daydream. A projection. What if the holon computing paradigm — actors instead of users, selfspaces instead of accounts, subscriptions instead of installations — was fully realized? What would a morning feel like? A hospital visit? A classroom? An election? A death in the family? Through eleven interconnected vignettes set in 2050, this book shows the answer: technology that has receded into the background of life, leaving people free to focus on what actually matters. Each vignette is followed by a dialogue that pulls back the curtain — explaining the architecture underneath the scene and why it can't happen in the current paradigm. Not a technical blueprint. The feeling of the thing.
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Joel Grenon
I’ve been in love with software for over 35 years — not just as a profession, but as a lifelong passion. It all started at age 10, writing simple games in BASIC on my Commodore VIC-20, and I’ve never stopped since. I’ve always seen code as a kind of poetry, often reading C source code for pleasure and inspiration. I’m a self-taught learner at heart, always curious, always experimenting, even before studying computer science formally. Over the years, I’ve worn many hats — developer, architect, manager — but my goal has always been the same: to build better, smarter software. In the mid-90s, I embraced Agile ideas early on, realizing smaller steps help avoid wasted effort and align better with real needs. Later, chaos theory and decentralized systems sparked new ideas for self-replicating software and federated databases. Bitcoin and Ethereum only deepened my thinking about what’s possible.
In the past 10 years, I've obsessed with applying chaos theory to software, trying to move away from the structured approach to embrace a more natural evolution, the emergence of software systems from simple self-aware components.
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