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NextFest for programmers

I was checking out the WIRED NEXTFest website, which previews a few of the exhibits, like flying cars, robot butlers and Invisibility Coats(think of the Predator movies, not Harry Potter).  And of course, this stuff is very cool and exciting, but it all seems very focused on engineering.  These people make material things that others can see.  I can't completely relate, I spend most of my time pushing bits and pixels around all day (and night).

I am just wondering if there is any conference like this for programmers.  Some non-specific (meaning open-source or proprietary) programming convention, where you get to see the most amazing stuff that people are doing with their virtual creations.

Is there any existing conference that matches this description?  Any thoughts on if this is a bad or good idea?

Published May 08 2004, 12:38 AM by AdamKinney
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Brandon Wirtz said:

I think this happens less and less. Software has lost some of its mystique. There was a time when my clients would come and ask, "Can we do this", now they say "we are going to have you do this" It is just assumed that all things are now possible in software, and that the cost of a solution being developed is fixed.

There is a real belief amongst a great many that the only thing new in software is speed and aestetic.

Look at Games, they aren't improving so much as they look prettier. Look at databases we no longer look at them in amber vision, and we rarely run a record query that takes 8 hours to generate, or we do but our data base is so large that previously the query would have taken so long it would be out of date by the time it was returned.

May 9, 2004 3:20 PM
 

Robert Scoble said:

The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference comes close.
May 9, 2004 10:42 PM

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