" Telephones, Mechanical Turks, and the Future of APIs", Mike Admundsen, LAYER7 APIDays Paris 2013
Channel: apidays
Date: 2014-01-09

Slides here : http://fr.slideshare.net/rnewton/2013-apidaysamundsen
Transcript  here : https://github.com/telephones-turks-and-apis/2013-apidays/blob/master/telephones-turks-apis.asciidoc

Is our API Economy is one big giant Mechanical Turk; a human-driven system made to look like automation? Are APIs a huge parlor trick like that employed in the late 18th century by the inventory Wolfgang von Kempelen for the intelligentsia of his patron - the Austrian court?

Using examples from the history of the first person-to-person network at the turn of the 20th century - the telephone system - we'll explore the past and future path of the 21st century API Economy. Will APIs, like telephone switching, become truly automatic? Or will service-to-service communication always require humans (programmers) to constantly code and re-code connections each time a new task is required? Is our current API Economy sustainable?

Github about the talk here : https://github.com/telephones-turks-and-apis/2013-apidays