>>9
I thought I was just pessimistic until about a year ago, when I found
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907106
In a couple of years we will not use Emacs or Visual Studio or anything like that: Most of programming will be done socially in Github via small changes directly from the website, from hundreds of people... it'd simplify the process of collaborative programming a lot.
If I wasn't already dead inside, I'm pretty sure that would have killed me.