Software engineering of the future, it is widely agreed, will be concurrent: as Moore's law comes to an end, the only path to continued progress is to use highly parallel architectures. It is also widely held that this change of architecture requires a change of mindset: programmers

must learn to «think parallel».

 The talk departs from this second assumption. Using the advent of concurrent architectures to force a radical departure from highly successful models of programming, in particular object technology, is not possible, not useful, and not desirable. The talk presents an approach to concurrency, based on the SCOOP model of concurrent object-oriented programming, that allows programmers to take advantage of concurrency while retaining the methods and disciplines that have permitted the tremendous success of programming technology over the past decades.