Challenges to Computing

Abstract

In posing the question as to challenges to computing, we consider what will sustain it. That is, we ask if or when will computing and computers come to their end of innovative applications. This is not a discussion about bigger and faster machines. Of course, bigger and faster computers can and will push to new limits ordinary and well explored topics. This is ongoing and will continue for centuries. We are entered into a discussion about the use of computers to solve new, even revolutionary, problems of this world. Innovation is necessary for the simple reason that problems are becoming bigger, more complex, even wicked, and some apparently impossible.