自1980年以来，关于社会计算的想法已经取得了进展。油井工程始于1985年。虽然我确信以前有在线社区，但我相信该领域的一些真正的见解发生在1980年之后。社会社区的不利动态方面及其在软件系统上的交互很像塔科马海峡大桥的灾难。

我认为Clay Shirky在该领域的工作阐明了这些影响以及如何减轻它们。我想说，社交软件洞察力的有趣的现实世界的例子包括reCAPTCHA和维基百科，其中重要的有价值的工作是由软件调解的参与者完成的。

在虚拟世界中，你由虚拟的另一个自我(又名阿凡达)代表，用于社交和角色扮演。

最常被称为mmo -大规模(ly)多人在线。一些流行的例子包括《魔兽世界》、《无尽的任务》和《第二人生》。

PS:不，他们仍然不需要像80年代极客电影中典型的那样戴着沉重的帽子。真可惜....

声明性编程。

1979年，“计算机程序”势在必行。程序员应该指导编译器做什么和怎么做。(N1)

今天,ASP。NET WebForms和WPF程序员经常在不知道或不关心它将如何实现的情况下编写代码。维基百科还有其他不那么主流的例子。此外，所有sgml派生的“标记”语言都是声明性的，我怀疑1979年的许多程序员是否能预测到它们在30年后的重要性或普遍性。

尽管声明式编程的概念在1980年之前就存在了(参见这篇1975年的论文)，但它的发明是在1985年Caml的引入(有争议)或1990年Haskell的引入(争议较少)时出现的。从那时起，声明式编程越来越受欢迎。而且，当大规模多核处理器最终到来时，我们都将成为声明式程序员。

-- 注: 我不能直接证明这一点，因为1979年我还是个胎儿。 从其他答案来看，人们似乎混淆了概念和发明。达·芬奇构想了直升机，但他没有发明它。这个问题是关于计算机发明的。 请不要在评论中提到Prolog (rel. 1975)，除非你真的用它开发了一个应用程序。

软件:

虚拟化和仿真 P2P数据传输 社区驱动的项目，如维基百科、SETI@home…… 网络爬行和网络搜索引擎，即索引信息分布在世界各地

硬件:

模块化PC 电子纸

当然，1980年以前是施乐PARC的辉煌时期。在图形用户界面、鼠标、激光打印机、互联网和个人电脑刚刚诞生的时候。(鉴于我太年轻了，不可能活在那个年代，而你几乎在努力发明所有这些东西，关于1980年的事情，我不能告诉你任何你不知道的事情，所以我们继续吧。)

The thing is, though, that the pre-1980 days were a lot more vibrant in terms of truly disruptive new technologies. That's the way it is with any new field -- hwo many game-changing technology advances have you seen in railroads in the past 100 years? How many have you seen in lightbulbs? In the printing press? Once something ignites a hype in the right circles, there is an explosive period of invention, followed by a long period of maturing. After that, you're not going to see the same kind of completely radical changes again UNLESS the basic circumstances change.

幸运的是，这可能会发生在一些领域，而且已经发生在其他一些领域:

Mobility - smart phones bring computing to a truly portable platform, which will soon include location-based services and proximity-based ad-hoc networks. It's a completely new paradigm that's potentially as game-changing as the GUI has been The WWW (HTTP, HTML and DNS) has already been mentioned and is an obvious addition to the list, since it is enabling global, inexpensive, mainstream rich communication across the globe - all thanks to a computing platform On the interface side, both touch, multitouch (Jeff Han comes to mind) and the Wiimote need mentioning. Currently, they are basically curiosities, but so were the early GUIs. OOP design patterns -- higher level solutions as best practices to hard problems. Depending on your definition of 'computing', it may or may not belong on the list, but if you count OOP as a significant advance pre-1980 (I certainly do), I think design patterns and the GoF deserve a mention too Google's PageRank and MapReduce algorithms - I am pleased to notice I wasn't the first to mention them, and seriously --- where would the world be without the principles of both of them? I vividly remember what the world looked like before them, and suffice it to say Google really IS my friend. Non-volatile memory -- it's on the hardware side, but it is going to play a significant role in the future of computing - making bootup times a thing of the past, for example, and enabling us to use computers in entirely new ways Semantic (natural language) search / analysis / classification / translation... We're not quite there yet, but companies like Powerset give the impression that we're on the brink. On that note, intelligent HTMs should be on this list as well. I am yet another believer in Jeff Hawkins' model and approach, and if it works, it will mean a complete redefinition of what computers can do, what it means to be human, and where the world can go from here. Creating a real intelligence in that way (synthetically) would be bigger than anything the human race has accomplished before. GNU + Linux 3D printing / rapid prototyping (and, in time, manufacturing) P2P (which also lead to VoIP etc.) E-ink, once the technologies mature a bit more RFID might belong on the list, but the verdict is still out on that one Quantum Computing is the most obvious element on the list, except we still haven't been able to get enough qubits to play along. However, my friends in the field tell me there's incredible progress going on even as we speak, so I'm holding my breath for that one. And finally, I want to mention a personal favourite: distributed intelligence, or its other name: artificial artificial intelligence. The idea of connecting a huge number of people in a network and allowing them access to the combined minds of everyone else through some form of question answering interface. It's been done a number of times recently, with Yahoo Answers, Askville, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and so on, but in my mind, those are all missing the mark by a LOT... much like the many implementations of distributed hypertext that came before Tim Berners-Lee's HTML, or the many web crawlers before Google. Seriously -- someone needs to build an search interface into 'the hive mind' to blow everyone else out of the water. IMHO - it is only a matter of time.

第一台真正的多媒体个人电脑，Amiga:第一台32位抢先处理多任务的个人电脑，第一台硬件图形加速，第一台多声道声音，在许多方面，它比现在流行的多核、多兆赫的Windows盒子机更有用、更强大。