Field/Industry: Software -<p>- no code hype to continue<p>- software companies labelling themselves as - “superhuman for X” (whatever that means)<p>- more open source products (not just libs or frameworks, but full fledged products)<p>- more companies opting for in-house development<p>- fight for privacy is going to continue, but it’s all going to be in vain<p>- decentralised internet, software would continue to be a toy<p>- in programming language- Python, JS, Golang would continue their upward trends. Rust and wasm ecosystem to grow.<p>- Remote teams trend to continue<p>- SaaS offerings would grow more vertical (see “superh... X”)<p>- I don’t think SaaS consolidation is going to happen (have read a lot of predictions about this)<p>Opinion- Experienced developers, that side project you always wanted to start, now would be a great time to do that , or switch to engineering management.<p>Overall it’s going to be a great time for the MBAs and not so exciting time for the techies working in non-core-CS industry (a suggestion to techies - go watch uncle bob’s - future of programming and let’s start bringing some fundamental changes to our profession).
More people will move towards smaller silos of 'social media' like a discord, telegram or reddit group.<p>More ridiculous regulations incoming.<p>Geo politics tension will increase.<p>Space war 2020? hah. But really, I feel like this will be the decade for another breakthrough given the commercial as well as government interest in space.<p>More vegetarians will emerge out of their shed than before.<p>Unicorns will stop appearing as frequently as they did in the past decade.<p>Crypto currencies will skyrocket again. The bubble and interest will grow towards the end or during the middle.<p>There will be more articles mentioning Google employees than there were this year on HN.<p>Lot of old 'boring' tech will emerge as new solution in a repackaged branding.<p>Have you heard of human interface design principles? Yes they will be applied and we will find that ads are intrusive and do not adhere to any of it so we will have companies emerging with 'organic advertising' which is done by some kind of ml bot using GPT or other text generation model with the pretense of using humans or generate ads on the fly personalized only for you that checks for your emotional state at that time.
(too cynical, I know)<p>Similarly, marketers and companies will use AI as an excuse to sell you things for cheaper/more. Like put things designed by a GAN next to human stuff with later priced at 5x or 10x.
Emotionally exploiting you while reaching everyone equally - rich, poor or middle class.<p>Deep[insert anything] will start to become more normal and mainstream.<p>Controversial one - trump will win the elections.<p>Half my predictions will turn out false. (that means half will come true)
> go watch uncle bob’s<p>Nope, still not going to watch anything from Uncle Bob.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/895327923346984960" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/895327923346984960</a>