[jauntywundrkind]

Computing is ripe for disruption. I think it's high time for computing to end bring the next big field in tech.

The various industries have deeply balkanized the field & expertly extract value with endless apps that primarily capture value for the app maker, while barely creating value for the user. We are in a late-appification stage.

I think the biggest value area of the future are undoing the damage of all this disruption & market capture - of undoing all these apps! - & building strong principled powerful general computing systems.

This is targeted to data scientists far more than general general computing, but I like how broadly this post expands the problem of what data science computing is: The Road to Composable Data Systems: Thoughts on the Last 15 Years and the Future. That unpacking of concerns, understanding & building the general substrate, calls powerfully to me. I think even more general computing forms lie in this direction, that expand how all computing by all users would work, in a way that better augments the user's intellect. https://wesmckinney.com/blog/looking-back-15-years/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367236

Figuring out how to make general progress that's even more accessible, less specialists & more "just how this computer works" in a way that everyone can potentially see & touch is the valuable work that is almost entirely ignored & unworked on now. It's a colossal opportunity.