Liberated implies that today&#x27;s computers are limited in what they can do, which I disagree with. But I can imagine special purpose machines being constructed to carry out tasks faster than otherwise possible. If we depart from the von Neumann style of computers, we probably won&#x27;t program these new machines in the traditional sense. I can see, for example, a computer designed to run an artifical neural network at the hardware level being trained on various datasets. In this case, training might be the new way of programming.