I see no evidence that programming is advancing, apart from bigger programs based on more old programs. The methods used in programming have not changed since the seventies.
Blue Brain
But the EPFL team’s work demonstrates that some of our fundamental representations or basic knowledge is inscribed in our genes. This discovery redistributes the balance between innate and acquired, and represents a considerable advance in our understanding of how the brain works.
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/new-evidence-f ... owledge-5/
The need then arises to show how information is moved from gene to brain and where in the gene all of this info is stored. Once the information is transferred, how does it think, daydream, solve problems, be happy, be sad, all with binary numbers?
Where did all of history's 'new' ideas come from if we started with no database?
Where is the program that runs the data?
All of these problems need to be solved before we can say we have any answers and they are not even addressed, not even with an adding machine.