Stephen Downes

After a career spent playing with code and creating (unsuccessful) applications, I've been pondering the same question Anil Dash ponders here: "the ability to orchestrate coding bots, making it possible for ordinary creators to command dozens of AI bots to build software without ever having to directly touch code." The implication here is that nobody will write software any more (except for a few people working in the very depths of the system, tweaking new hardware interfaces in Assembler, and optimizing C compilers). If you want a new application, you don't build it or buy it, you just describe what you want, and that's what you end up with. What happens to 'edtech' if the educational application the student gets is whatever they want it to be? Now we're not there yet - not even really that close. But I can see it out there, on the long horizon.