With all due respect, Meta comment here: I imagine computing has become sufficiently ubiquitous such that in ~50 yrs time the HN bar will always be black because we will have > 365 important folks pass away each year.
Weak argument. Sir Clive's influence on computing, particularly in Britain is enormous. For many of us his products are the reason we are part of this industry.
I'm more reflecting on the fact that the number of programmers roughly doubles every 5 years and thus the number of Sir Clive's should be greatly increasing too, no?
With all due respect, Meta comment here: I imagine computing has become sufficiently ubiquitous such that in ~50 yrs time the HN bar will always be black because we will have > 365 important folks pass away each year.
But will there be a HN then?