3D printing, when it becomes possible to make things a little more sophisticated than a few plastic shapes. For example, imagine if you could set up a robotic wood shop in your garage, using ordinary tools, and you could download a piece of furniture. I think there'd be some very interesting business models that would come out of something like that. Perhaps you're buying the furniture, or perhaps you're selling it to your neighbors as a franchiser for some kind of virtual IKEA in the cloud. Metal shops and other kinds of fabrication, similarly, would be great.
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#12Embedded processors are reaching I think we're incredibly close to battery-less consumer electronics.
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#13Realtime bioinformatics from mobile dongles that are actually useful to the general population.
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#14IoT technologies will disrupt most major industries. It's like 1995 right now for IoT and businesses are wondering if they ought to have a website. As more operations and products come online, data platforms will become standardized. The skills gap will be bridged, through AI / Machine Learning and more data-literacy educational training. I actually expect mobile device sales to slow down as the number of connected d…
Who will standardize it? Nobody seems to have a clue how to standardize.
Alphabet/Google is making an attempt with Nest. There is an entire "Nest works with" page that shows a variety of different IoT devices that use Nest as sort of a base station I believe. I would link the page but I'm on mobile. Not saying this will be the standard, but it seems like Nest is taking a shot at it.
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#15There are a lot of really interesting things happening in BI. First, many accounting and some business grads are now coming with database knowledge. They're able to gain insights from data that the older generations in this space didn't have the skills to do. Way more interesting to me are advances like Amazon's QuickSight [1] which is geared towards business data. You can just upload stuff (CSVs, ERP databases, etc.…
Pardon for plug in another product...
SAP Cloud for Analytics [0] (tutorials/how the software works is available for free @ YouTube[1]).
What sets SAP C4A apart from the competitor is a product/vertical app built on-top of SAP C4A platform: Digital Boardroom [2] (pics behind the guy is from production software) where the execs can see the company performance (Financials, Perf, or other metrics) Actual and Forecast in real-time. Better predictive capabilities are in development (Predictive Analytics).
Have to agree with parent, BI is beginning to heat up (again). I'm noticing a sense of new excitement from the customers or potential customers that we approached...
[0] http://discover.sap.com/cloudforanalytics/en-us/index.html
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RoDMhydu4U&list=PLs5htBIwER...
[2] http://technology.inquirer.net/46423/sap-to-release-the-sap-...
Re: Ask HN: What's going to be the next big thing?
#16There are a lot of really interesting things happening in BI. First, many accounting and some business grads are now coming with database knowledge. They're able to gain insights from data that the older generations in this space didn't have the skills to do. Way more interesting to me are advances like Amazon's QuickSight [1] which is geared towards business data. You can just upload stuff (CSVs, ERP databases, etc.…
Pretty interesting. It's like a cloud version of Tableau almost.
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#17CRISPR/CAS9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR is something that will revolutionise everything
including computing. I thing Genes & DNA will be used for computing instead of traditional processing hardware