Rewriting the Apocalypse
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Rewriting the Apocalypse osfameron, London Perl Workshop, 8 th Nov 2014 www.flickr.com/photos/turatti/6726041123
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* How is the Internet of Things like knitting? * Is the Perl community bigger on the inside? * And is surviving the apocalypse just a question of being in the right universe at the right time? Let's travel 100 years into the future to answer all these questions and more.
Transcript of Rewriting the Apocalypse
Rewriting the Apocalypse
osfameron, London Perl Workshop, 8th Nov 2014
www.flickr.com/photos/turatti/6726041123
© Marc Johns, www.marcjohns.com/blog/2009/12/hype.html
en.wikipedia.org
1.2 million BC 1960s-70s
$1500*
* CPI Adjusted to 2008, original price: $900
1989
www.flickr.com/photos/olsenweb/525567429Info borrowed from Mike Kuniavsky – www.orangecone.com
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Wispa_Bar.jpgInfo borrowed from Mike Kuniavsky – www.orangecone.com
drblack.posterous.com/followme-from-colossus-to-raspberry-pi
arduino.cc
uk.farnell.com/connectors
yapc.eu
“When did you last read a book ongeneral programming techniquesthat contained examples written inPerl?”
- Dave Cross
perlhacks.com/2014/08/perl-usage
book.roomofthings.com
www.flickr.com/photos/jobopa/4559666607
www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/2969641664
github.com/perl
www.flickr.com/photos/brandejackson/570100226
www.flickr.com/photos/gugod/14845416077
www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/17/356944145/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding
edinburgheye.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/brooks-newmark-sophie-wittam
osfameron
theknittingneedleandthedamagedone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/and-you-thought-cashmere-yarn-was.html
www.flickr.com/photos/hakimcassimally/7705559596/
www.ukhandknitting.com/knitting_for_charity.php
www.flickr.com/photos/39554118@N08/15400943267
www.makerfaireuk.com/2014/04/03/spotlight-on-agnes-roboknit
knitting.about.com/od/troubleshooting/a/mistakes_2.htm
knitting.about.com/od/troubleshooting/a/mistakes_2.htm
rypress.com/tutorials/git/rewriting-history.html
justinhileman.info/article/changing-history
medium.com/@thezerobit/python-3-is-killing-python-5d2ad703365d
trubzi.com
www.liz.nl/AStateOfPerl6YAPCEU.pdf
www.flickr.com/photos/wendyga/8258024514
made with timeline.knightlab.com
“Do we know how we want Perl 5to look like 5-10 years from now?”
- SawyerX
www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/09/msg219234.html
“It's hard to predict what life willbe like in a hundred years.There are only a few things we cansay with certainty. We know thateveryone will drive flying cars…”
- Paul Graham, 2003
www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
“There are some stunningly novelideas in Perl, for example. Manyare stunningly bad, but that'salways true of ambitious efforts.”
- Paul Graham, 2003
www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
“At its current rate of mutation,God knows what Perl might evolveinto in a hundred years.”
- Paul Graham, 2003
www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci
fc02.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/315/9/5/The_TARDIS__Da_Vinci_style_by_madnesslab.jpg
image edits by larsen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29278394@N00/6836803754
www.flickr.com/photos/hobbified/668680956
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© Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jonesaerial photograph by Jason Hawkes
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floods
genocide
dystopia
nuclear war
yay!
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floods
genocide
dystopia
nuclear war
yay!
safecast.org/tilemap
airqualityegg.com
www.slideshare.net/osfameron/adventures-in-civic-hacking
politicalweb.org.uk
www.flickr.com/photos/rossap/7619777396
www.vastavalo.fi/orava-kurre-poikanen-pieni-taukopaikalla-181212.html
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