| This feels like an odd angle to take in concern around the next decade of programming. It starts a level below what problems might be the next thing to tackle and focuses on what shiny objects have already got enough traction to be considered concern of the past 3-5 years. Short-sighted. Boring. Couldn't dance to it. 1-3 years are feasibly predictable
3-7 are 50/50 hunches 20%CI
8-9 you might as well be talking jet packs
10+ You aren't talking about saving or controlling the world? Refactor! 10 years from now, we blow IP up. we napster algorithmic experiences because you can't patent wiping your ass
10 years from now, we make devices cheaper than water from scrap plastic
10 years from now, any human can talk to any other human anytime, anywhere
10 years from now, my meta-data is meaningless and we defund NSA because they are deaf dumb and useless
10 years from now, we eat the rich and feed the poor Why bother looking 10 years ahead without setting some real goals or at least looking at things that might actually drive the innovation in the next 10 years vs what is already well-planned? We're all going to be 10 years closer to death and you are believing we'll have "smart dust"? A Roomba in every house! Do you know how long it's been since I first heard that there would be fucking smart dust? You mean we need to lay a powder of infrastructure down to detect what distributed, distant sensors could tell you? Looks like a whale just barfed in the ocean and we got a ton of our dust back online... water's still wet AND salty there! Dial back the Antarctica dust belcher for a minute to balance out the South Pacific by next year... stupid whales, when will you learn? He should have stopped at sensors. We'll have 1984. Smart dust? We'll be crotch-deep in gray goo. Whales are like, "IIIIIIII WIIIIIIILLLLLLL DEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSTRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!" |