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I predict we are entering (or have entered) a silver age of technology where progress will be slower and less breathtaking. Rather than radical innovation we will see slower and steady progress within existing technologies. Ideally the manic optimism (and pessimism) of the past will give way to a calmer, more humble optimism.

In web development in particular I hope this will lead to a reexamination of lost ideas, such as the hypermedia architecture. I think you are seeing that with things like Hotwire and htmx.

So I would look to ideas from the past, perhaps abandoned today, for things to inspire us.

[WhisperingShiba]

Taking it a little slower could be great for mental health and social technologies. I love science and science/engineering technologies, but IMO we have been amiss by changing our lives so quickly with technological progress, considering people need time to actually experience 'What is good' and not hop wildly between new technologies.