Ask HN: Which technologies will become important in the next 5 years? The most impactful technologies typically emerge without too much fanfare. There's usually a small group of people who see the potential in a nascent technology and understand that if certain things fell in place, the technology could be a big deal. Which technologies are a few steps away from becoming important in the next 5 years? |
The other way round will also occur (and definately already has started but i expect it to be more and more the case.) You are a web-company wanting to do some ML on some data you won't even think of having a seperate Python/R/Julia program, you will just use the Node equivs (which I am sure today are good, but I don't know them). Similar for the desktop applications in Java or C# they will just use their own ML / Data Science libraries.
And just like there is indeed a role for specialized web servers like Node, there will still be case where you do want to pull out the big guns and move over to Python/R/Julia. but those will become rarer and rarer.
I guess you could say it is commoditization of ML/Data Science libraries.
* an assistant at the drug store that lives on the screen has the image of a body and can make eye contact with you
* a 3-d graphic performer that does a sketch comedy act with a human performer that is reflected into a mirror like "pepper's ghost"
https://www.amazon.com/Information-Machines-Their-Impact-Med...
anticipated that cnn.com would exist around 1981; actually you could read news headlines on Compuserve. France had minitel, other countries had videotext, but there wasn't enough centralization in most places for large-scale online services to hit big until the technology had passed the threshold at which it could have worked by an order of magnitude.
Then it went off like a bomb.
habits that shape the consumer, employers, companies making decisions for automation.
maybe drug store managers would feel like they have no one to manage? it would be too disruptive for labor.
From a consumer perspective even available tech like voice recognition doesn't seem to add or change much for me personally like I know Siri is on my iphone right now, but how often do I feel comfortable speaking to her? almost never.Why would I speak if I could type?
Virtual game characters like assistants would look too odd and uncomfortable, except maybe in japan, it's uncomfortable to make eye contact with human strangers, let alone 'robot eyes stranger'!.
maybe if younger kids were exposed to virtual assistants they would be comfortable in adapting to them, just like gen z adapted to preferring typing over answering the phone.
maybe that could be the future of post-gen z generation.
Capability Based Security inverts this, the user is trusted, and given powerful tools to allow running code without trusting it. Usability and performance aren't sacrificed.
The water, food, and logistics concerns that have driven human habitation patterns forever haven't gone away, and show bo signs of going away for a long time. Is it possible to support habitation in places that aren't currently well-settled? Sure, but it's expensive, and that's not going to change relative to the places that are well-settled.
- Anything that merges finance and information
- Zero-carbon tech
Biotech powered by AI
Privacy & moderation tools
Cuelang :fingers_crossed:
You need a counter balanced perspective, young with experienced, optimistic with pessimistic.
But one advantage they have is that many are fresh from university and have more exposure to latest research. A new grad might have a better feel for the tech level of, say, optical routers or quantum computing.
You don't have to work with them though. Most of my interactions are tech memes and hanging around with the people who make game-related bots on Discord.