What is this? Shout it out if you knowwhat it is. I know it's early but we're
not moving on until everyone's made aguess. So most people said: “A computer.”
We all know that, but more to the point.What is the speed? Who made it? When was it?
This particular model is a “UNIVAC 1108.”Speed. Manufacturer. Those folks…
don't they make the iPhone? No they don't.Have been bought and sold twenty times.
Manufacturer year: fifty years ago.I know what you're thinking. You're
thinking what everyone in this roomthinks, when they're presented with a
computing device. Does it do any of thethings I needed to do, as a consumer.
Does it have Photoshop?Of course not.
This device is officially antiquatedthat if you were to try to get Photoshop
on it. Things will get weird very quickly. You'dbe committed to an asylum, or something
along those lines.
Why? Because there's no way to translatethat Photoshop. You have to somehow
de-binary everything. You have to geteverything on magnetic tape storage.
Every single process and the rim… you'dprobably need twelve billion ”UNIVAC 1108.”
It's just to open Photoshop. The point beingtechnology moves very quickly, to the
point that the years after thismanufacture date of 1965, it's comical
some persons using it in a slide andtalk about emerging technology. Because
it's so antiquated, so foreign to all ofus. What does it look like using
contemporary technology to do all thetasks, or the inverse? What if you're
doing contemporary tasks with oldtechnology?
Here's a scene: someone's working on aPHP project, except they're using very
old technology. Nothing anyone here weused to work on a web designer
development project today.
Ridiculous. That would never happen.To begin moving into the future, I’m going
to use unique talent humans do so well.Projecting future using the past and the
present to determine likely outcomes.To do that we're going to go back to really
old time. Human culture was far differentthan it is today.
Mannerisms, ways of dressing, speaking,technology. We're completely foreign to
what they are now.
1991. Specifically I want to talk aboutthis word. You know, we now go for as this.
That is not to go for too much I'mreferring. More to the point.
Gopher space. Also… not what you may bethinking.
That's what my knees thinks it is.We're going to Minnesota.
In 1991, something called “Cobra space” wascreated by the University of Minnesota.
A way to share electronic documents linkedthem to one another around the world.
So you could share files remotely. Documents,images, data without flying to Florida to
send someone to piece of paper.
Perhaps some courier bring a letter thatsays: “Yes, you can take off from work.”
Things were going exceedingly well. Therewere a lot of projects around the world
that were analogous to go for space. Butnone had really caught on. Quite as well
as go for space. Until 1993, when theUniversity of Minnesota said: “Hey, by the
way we might charge for this. We'redefinitely going to charge for
commercial usage of it and we're alsonot going to sufficiently define all of
our licensing terms, so there might besome weird stuff happening soon.”
Earth responded with: “Alright, we'll seeyou later.” There is another project at
the European center for Nuclear Researchin Geneva, created by someone named
Tim Berners-Lee, called the World Wide Web.
Oh, Really? What is that?
We know where things went from there.On April 30th 93 something that in 2091
will be referred to as the unificationevent. The administrators at CERN then
something amazing. A week later, TimBerners-Lee sent some selected people
around the world a message,
in which was a notificationthat the World Wide Web software is now
in public domain. The power of open sourcehas permeated the World Wide Web
software into everything. It isphysically inside people's bodies and
some cases. Let's go to today, beforewe move forward.
Why we're here? There is a huge milestonethat recently happened.
25% of the planet,
top ten million, I believe it is,
websites are powered by WordPress.
Give it up for big dubs.
Wow. These captioning people are amazing.Where are we, though? What can you do?
What kind of things can you build withWordPress? Those questions have no
meaning for me. There's no answer.Don't read it, but database schemas
powering anything. Embedded systems,operating system abstractions, internets,
every kind of website configuration,web app.
You know. It still does that thing.5 years it's gonna be this sort of thing?
No. Everything's going to be veryanalogous to what it is today. But a
little bit more mature. In 2020 alot of things you already know are going
to happen, will indeed occur.Native applications more common,
REST API theme development more commonthan traditional theme development,
veteran WordPress developers thatare persnickety about it,
one influential developer or morewill publish an article like does this
even matter anymore, does thateven matter anymore, does the
thing that's not JavaScript evenmatter anymore?
Most importantly, the REST API by thenhas very mature support for all of the
core WordPress APIs, includingplugins. Plugins question mark?
Yes. At first, everything is JavaScript.Themes JavaScript, plug ins.
WordPress database.
Can you manipulate it as deeply asyou can with PHP by then. It's a more
domestic devices, embedded systems.WordPress as the OS, the UI, the database.
This cat? JavaScript.Dinner with my family, JavaScript.
Dude on the left, JavaScript.
But then, everything's not JavaScript.WordPress becomes invisible. What does
that mean? Calypso. The actual wp-admin dashboardis not there. There is now, the reality
that people can use WordPress 100% throughnative application. Could do that for
many years of course through a varietyof other apps. The user base at
WordPress.com it's very significant.Let's move forward.
2035. Things start to get interesting.Certainly for those of us in the room
today. Why? Because we get our choice.We get to live in a nineties sci-fi movie…
…finally.
…so.
Sounds cool, right? What does that worklike? Let's take a look at a friend of
mine. She's just playing some music,checking out some posts, switching to
different sites. “Howdy Michele.”
Yeah. Don't believe it? Too bad. It’s goingto happen.
“The next 75%” That popular phrase doesn'treally mean anything in 2035. WordPress
has moved beyond, we know that today.At the consumer level so far beyond being
a website content management system. It'severywhere. Where some services have gone
well you have to have this type ofserver configuration, or process too big
and we're just this one thing and aslong as he spent 13 hours configuring
the server you can have the best websiteever.
Those kind of strong use cases that arevery narrow are extremely useful.
WordPress goes in the opposite direction andembraces third-world countries. Maintains
focus even though in 2035. ActualWordPress Admin Dashboard is irrelevant.
It's still kept. Why? Because noteveryone has a MacBook Pro and a
broadband connection, even in 2035.Let's take a look at the scene here.
An embedded device that casual usersWordPress.
Ok. Let's try something different
Again. Anyone that does not thinkit's gonna happen, I want to speak
to you in the hallway after the talk.
Let's take this stuff away go. Two friends here.Mel and Michael. I could say that I'm doing this
I could say I'm doing this on purpose, but thetruth is I didn't have time to render this video.
Let's do a few seconds
of an exchange where everything isturned off, literally just green screen.
because to me it does look ridiculous.But that level of customization, which
we'll see if following video, is what'scoming. The interface means nothing.
Keyboards, glowing rectangles that westare at all day today,
are a transitional element in our lives.They're inefficient, cause health issues
and they will be gone
eventually.
All I did was turn off the render layer.
So 2035, that's great, we have fun.It's really cool for a while until we get
them as common as an iPhone and then wejust don't care about these immersive
holographic spherical interfaces. We getto a point 2065, where it's difficult to
visually communicate what the interfaceslike. I'm not going to force you through
this thing again, but how differentcould things get?
Let's watch the video first. Mostly becauseI'm out of time so I'm going to skip this.
This is going to happen, also that. And that.And some of that. This, okay. This is just someone
doing casual upkeep of WordPress, gardeningsmashing tickets and the like…
What just happened there?
The user interface is an extension ofhis thought process. The way things are
visualized, are visualized similar to howyou visualize thoughts today. How you
organize data. When you hear a certainperson's voice, you got flashes of colour,
structure, emotion. That's WordPress in2065. So that sounds great and all,
but when does this happen? Is there a day?
Yeah, right now.
Thank you.