ASK HN: What emerging technologies do you think will trend in 2020 and why? What emerging technologies do you think will trend in 2020 and why? |
ASK HN: What emerging technologies do you think will trend in 2020 and why? What emerging technologies do you think will trend in 2020 and why? |
Quantum ICs attract billions in research dollars. With cybersecurity perhaps being the key industry driver. But recent materials and design advancements in "electronic-photonic" interfaces have yielded incredible boosts to matrix multiplication and FFT calculation. And the temptation to create machine learning and AI capable mobile devices may speed adoption of a new generation of photonics.
Lightmatter, a startup using light to accelerate artificial intelligence, wins the 2017 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lightmatter-a-startu...
Light-Powered Computers Brighten AI’s Future
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/light-powered-com...
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This would help a lot with the limits we are approaching with batteries, as well as the environmental effects associated with their production.
Long term, people are proposing the collection of solar energy in space, and the resulting energy beamed down in microwaves to the “cell towers” so described above.
Maybe you can do beam forming and try to direct the energy at the phone you are interested in? Still seems like a big challenge though.
While it may not fit some people's definition of emerging I think we will see implementations outside of cryptocurrency. I know some clearing companies (related to the stock/futures/etc markets) are interested in it and so are banks. I can see them having something implemented in the next 3 years, even if it is just something that does a very small share of their business. I'm very excited to see applications of blockchain outside of cryptocurrency!
Also the compile time certainty that things line up is hard to live without.
Look at it this way. ReactJS is functional programming but in JS. The natural home of this way of building UI is in a ML like language. Can already be done in purescript for example.
Once people get their heads around react and reduces, changing to a type system like ML will yield obvious advantages
Supportive tech for Self-Driving Cars (Travel planner, guides, entertainment, portable charging technology for Electrics
Semi-Autonomous Drone networking/clustering for coordinated tasks
Emergency response technologies involving drones/self-driving vehicles
Decentralized energy generation and cellphone signals.
Local currencies and social apps.
Decentralization in general.
kubernetes running a lot of companies workloads
blockchain for things people never thought they'd use a ledger for.
Then I reminded myself that many of the technologies I'm using to tell you that suffered the same so, eh, I don't believe it will but who knows! And I hope it does.