The art of creating software has changed very little since 1975, when I dropped out of Harvard and started Microsoft. There's still a huge mismatch between data models and whole language. The future of software will include an entire realm of the senses including vision, speech recognition, speech synthesis and motion. They go to meetings.
Storage is also a challenge.
Mr. Gates noted a challenge for the future is in testing software programs. The LCS anniversary celebration began on Monday, April 12 with a reception at Boston's Museum of Science. The capsule is to be unsealed in 2033 or upon solution of a cryptographic puzzle that is estimated to require approximately 35 years to be solved.