programmer-as-navigator
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/355611.362534 – Author: Charles Bachman
- Computer vs database as the center of information flow
- Similar to geocentric vs heliocentric view of the planetary system
- Turing machine is imagined as a computer that information flows in and out of
- Today we treat database as that entity - info goes in and out of database. Computers/clients are just a peripheral agent in the system