# Fortran AI images **URL:** \ **Category:** Humor\ **Created:** [January 19, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-ai-images/7236 "2024-01-19T21:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 72
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-ai-images/7236/72 "2025-01-29T18:44:14Z")
> [@joseph\_carter](#): > > How do you see the future? What will the world look like in the coming years, and what further changes can we expect? Can AI bring any significant advancements in the field of medicine as well? Having seen the exciting birth of the utopia of the World Wide Web in the 90’s and seeing the world as it is now, I think the result will be the same with AI: a mixed bag. That’s what [John Backus](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/john-backus-1924-2007-fortrans-father/873/5) said in his last interview in 2006: > Interviewer: _“Is the world a better place because of all the software that’s been written in your lifetime, or not?”_ > Backus: _“Well, in human terms, probably not. Because it just takes us further and further away from human affairs. But as far as economic, and welfare, it’s done a lot of good. So it’s a mixed bag. > … > But I don’t envy you, I’m afraid. I think that we’re getting more and more technological and less and less human oriented.”_ --- _[View the full topic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-ai-images/7236)._