Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
Dang it, we lost 2 of the biggest champions of the Actor model, Carl and Joe a couple of years ago.  Who is left to carry the torch to illuminate millions of developers who have no idea or have never heard of the Actor model?  Sadly, we will see thousands or poorly thought out replacement models (eg. C++ futures, thread pools etc), which only offer a subset of Actor functionality instead of implementing the whole she-bang.  E