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Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
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Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#2Blockchain and cryptocoin markets will probably grow the most in the next five years.
The total market cap for cryptocoins will grow from $50 billion today to $1+ trillion in the future.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#3Ai, because is the future. Everything will be at an certain point controlled or work with ai.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#4I personally think the market of add-on or web browser's extension.
Why? Because, web browser is second most software used after operating system by a normal computer users. If you are developer you use editor and web browser, if you are writer you use world processor and web browser, if you are market person you use trading software and web browser and so on. I mean web browser is something used by everyone.
We have written applications ( for computer and mobile device ) for most useful sotware - operating system to reach out our users. Now, it is time to target next software used by everyone. You might create a website but it will only be there until user do not close that tab. But, with extension, you will be in constant connection with user.
Currently thid market is uder estimate as many developer consider that it is not something that consider as programming. But, I think every website specific limit to connect users. and at that situation, add-ons will come to rescue.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#5my three guesses (my company is in 1 of these areas):
consumer internet privacy and security (think barracuda for the home market -- above and beyond a standard router/firewall possibly with active L7 features)
consumer and enterprise storage management (they literally can't even make enough ssd's right now, people and companies are hoarding data and can't manage it effectively or reliably)
rural and wilderness area wireless internet (people will start moving out of cities again and will want the same > 50 megabit low latency service).
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#6AI, because everything and their grandma needs to be smart.
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#7Most people are terrible at predicting the future in this way. Some of the most accurate predictions sound like (or are) jokes at the time, like when JK Rowling was writing her first book as basically a "welfare mom." She did a lot of the writing while her baby napped at some eatery owned by friends/relatives. She would make jokes to the effect of "When my book gets famous, it will put your place on the map!" That basically all came true, from the book being famous to it making the place she wrote it famous too.
But when you go back historically, predictions of what life would be like "now" all left out the world changing invention of computers and internet.
There is a scene in the movie "The Graduate" where he is at a party and everyone is telling him what he should go into as his career because it will be big in the future. One person tells him "Plastics!" This was a joke at the time, a ridiculous statement. Years later, the plastics industry used that bit in a TV commercial.
If you really, sincerely believe "The Future is all about X industry," you aren't telling people that on the internet. You are quietly behind the scenes buying more shares in X or getting training to work in X or otherwise trying to make sure you are the firstest with the mostest in X.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#8Blockchain and cryptocoin markets will probably grow the most in the next five years. The total market cap for cryptocoins will grow from $50 billion today to $1+ trillion in the future.
Do you know how few people on HN even own any cryptocurrency? It's likely close to 1-2%. It's been like that for the past 5 years.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#9carpal tunnel syndrome specialists.
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#10AI in all its guises, such as self driving cars, virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, etc.
Augmented Reality, I would suspect in a year or two we will have the first successful product.
Services and entertainment for aging populations.
Real estate auction services, Trump is going to have to sell of a lot after going to prison.