born 1930
Alan Kay is a renowned computer scientist known for his pioneering work in the field of personal computing. He is credited with inventing the concept of the laptop computer, graphical user interface (GUI), overlapping windowing interface, and the programming language Smalltalk. Throughout his career, Kay has made significant contributions to the development of modern computing technology.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.