MOBE2001's Journal: Why We Need a New Computer Revolution

Unreliability imposes an upper limit on the complexity of our software systems. We could conceivably be riding in self-driving vehicles right now but concerns over reliability, safety and high development costs will not allow it. As a result, over 40,000 people die every year in traffic accidents. Something must be done. Unfortunately, the computer industry is still using the same algorithmic computing model that Charles Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace pioneered close to 150 years ago. This would not be so bad except that the algorithmic model is the main reason that software is so unreliable and so hard to develop. It is time to question the wisdom of the gods of computer science and switch to a new computing model, a non-algorithmic, synchronous model. It is time for a new revolution. There is no avoiding it. The market is screaming for it. And what the market wants, the market will get. This is what Project COSA is about.

Having seen first hand the inertia and hostility of the western computer industry and computer science community toward any suggestion that there may be a better way of doing things, I have concluded that the new revolution cannot come from the West. They have placed their computer pioneers on a pedestal and nobody dares question the wisdom of their gods. India and China, on the other hand, don't have that problem. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. They have been on the tail end of the first computer revolution from the beginning but now they are in a position to leapfrog the western advantage and become the leader of the second revolution.