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Well about the ones you have said in specific, AI/VR, I do not think they will be a requirement for the majority of jobs in the software industry for quite some time.

I believe that even though technology changes fast, the things you need to change do not move as quickly but that probably depends on the company and technology that company is using in the first place.

Where I am working, we are writing software mostly in Java, some analysis on the data with Splunk and SQL for the database.

Sure enough I had to keep up with Java development but it is not _that_ rapidly. Nevermind the fact that the company only now is switching to Java 8.

That being said, I do like learning new things in the field but they are not the "latest cool things", for example now I am learning Haskell by reading books on it and doing excercises, the normal way to learn a new language afaik.

I do tend to check out things that tickle my interest, lately I have made a small app in Angular2/Dart because it sounded interesting, but by no means have I learned to use them in-depth.