Does this lecture include her famous nanosecond/microsecond dioramas? The existing videos on it seem to be fairly low quality. [0]
Wow.
11.8" is a nanosecond.
So much wisdon and understanding:
"Get a molocule set, red balls can be computers, blue balls can be databases..."
"Get out of the domain of the paper, you cant draw in paper any more, they've got to be in three diminsions."
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EDIT: @-probably_wrong
You have to think that she also has to put things into the minds of others who dont have here prescient forethought of systems.
Listen to all she says about "systems of computers" where "you need a computer to run all these other computers" and that you have ~160KB over head to run a 32KB program... andn how she breaks down all the constituents in a cluster, down to security auth...
And she tells you to buy a Scientific Molocule Model set to be able to design computer systems in 3d.
She is fn the foundation of cloud.
I wholeheartedly wish certain folks - us all, undoubtedly, but particularly certain people, such as Hopper - were inmortal.-
IMO the fundamental problem is that visualizing complex systems fails because the result is either too cumbersome to be useful or too simplified. UML tried to solve that issue (in 2D) by allowing you to go into more/less detail as you need it, and yet its adoption in modern software development is uneven at best. And there's a reason why we use flowcharts mostly for beginner's problems.
The actual solution, I believe, was getting away from visualizations by making robust software (well...) with clear interfaces to abstract the complexity away. Reaching this conclusion took a lot of work by plenty of brilliant minds, so I'm not faulting her for not being that accurate in that particular prediction.
I mean, at the time that she was saying this, you couldnt fill a Trump Rally with as many people on the planet at the time knew the future of compute the way she did.
The closest we have nowadays to her "3D flowcharts" idea would be UML in general [2] and Orthogonal State Machines [3] in particular, but I think that what her problem really needed was better encapsulation and interfaces between systems.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML_state_machine#Orthogonal_r...