New programming paradigms?



While reading an article about the possibly new Quantum computers that begin to be available (the topic is subject of discussions, being that the new hardware architecture will allow programmers to use different states between 0 and 1), a question popped in my mind.

If we actually consider that we are already lacking of good IT profiles, we also need to care about the way those new intelligent machines will be programmed (very concretely, how many good programmers do we have around the globe and how many will be able to abandon their COBOL and C programming routines for new programming languages that will imply many more complicated ‘states’ of the binary system we’re used to program?)

On top of this potential Copernican revolution (allowing the technology to go behind the binary computing paradigm), the human skills for using the new available computing power will require many years of R&D, learning and development, training etc.

On top of what we can add new skills needed for handling big data and the new scientific profiles needed in the future (having statistics skills, programming skills, visual knowledge for ‘simply’ presenting complex data sets etc.) make me believe that the information technology revolution has not started yet…

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