I&#x27;m excited to see what comes out of this. The area I&#x27;m hoping they&#x27;d look at is programming. There hasn&#x27;t been any big ideas in programming in a really long time. Languages are rehashes of the same features with slightly different configurations and incremental improvement in performance or tooling. Programming interfaces are stagnant too -- Smalltalk&#x27;s interactive devlopement environment is still the sci-fi version of what  most people think programming could be.<p>The programmer and the program have never been further away from each other as it is today. The development environment have never been further away from the production environment as it is today. And end-user interfaces have never been as abstracted away from computing as it is today.<p>If any group can breathe some life into this stagnant area then my bet would be on this group.