Keynote
summary
Starts from H2O demos and 45 V electrolysis then walks history: Turing invents stacks, base‑32 coding, mercury delay lines and a 22‑bit ACE; wartime relays switch ~10 Hz. Claims there are ~100 million programmers (27 doublings from one), current doubling ~5 years, modern cars contain ~100 million lines, and software failures have killed people and cost $450M in minutes. Calls for test-driven development, being shippable every iteration (prefer weekly), and continuous improvement so code stays safe and maintainable.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Water and chemical properties
- 6:26Alan Turing and early computing
- 10:17Computing hardware evolution
- 15:47The growth of programming
- 21:02Software in modern society
- 26:37Software failures and ethics
- 31:47The need for professional standards
- 34:45Expectations for programmers
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