Sam's response to my previous comment: "I guess I'm a bit more optimistic. I remember when e-mail between companies never worked. Heck, I remember when clocks in cars could never be trusted (most clocks in US houses depend on the 60hz power cycles, as cars run off of DC power, the clocks must find other means)."
The clock in my car still can't be trusted ;-) .
For all of this to work smoothly, we must be both aware of and tolerant of the differences between platforms, and provide as much documentation as we can - preferably containing copious amounts of human and machine readable content.
Yet with all of the documentation in the world, interoperability will still not be automatic. We may be able to hide some of the complexity, or gives the appearance of automation at some levels, but there will always be human intervention in the process.
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