Today on this ol' server

Abstraction

I stared at some of my Czech puzzles, and was reminded when I stood in front of the Czech royal cathedral. At that instant I got what abstraction meant. Here in Prague, back in the 10th century there were many people that lived their lives dedicated to to the ultimate abstraction of the church. Look at the art, the stratified hierarchy, Mary here, Jesus up there. Look at the buttresses, each ascending beyond. Then they were left behind during the Renaissance, then came Lutheranism, along with the rest of Protestant reformation, add to it Darwinism, and Newtonian mechanics. Then finally god is dead pronounced by Nietzsche.

Wonder where software abstraction will take us? Will it finally crumble, in a diluted, distributed haze? Or we will have some new insight bringing us beyond?
Wonder how much process do we need to bring us to the next transformation?

Posted at 12:43AM May 21, 2006 by saf in musing  |  Comments[0]