I wrote an article about this exact topic: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/10-technologies-you-need-...
Enjoyed reading your article. It's honest and your rationale is well laid out.
thank you!
Ask HN: Which technologies will become important in the next 5 years?
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#13I for one am amazed that "video game characters" are stuck in video games and don't come out in forms like: * an assistant at the drug store that lives on the screen has the image of a body and can make eye contact with you * a 3-d graphic performer that does a sketch comedy act with a human performer that is reflected into a mirror like "pepper's ghost" Technologies that are ready to "break through" (like the intern…
I think it's because many engineers underestimate how much the force of habit shape people behavior.
habits that shape the consumer, employers, companies making decisions for automation.
maybe drug store managers would feel like they have no one to manage? it would be too disruptive for labor.
From a consumer perspective even available tech like voice recognition doesn't seem to add or change much for me personally like I know Siri is on my iphone right now, but how often do I feel comfortable speaking to her? almost never.Why would I speak if I could type?
Virtual game characters like assistants would look too odd and uncomfortable, except maybe in japan, it's uncomfortable to make eye contact with human strangers, let alone 'robot eyes stranger'!.
maybe if younger kids were exposed to virtual assistants they would be comfortable in adapting to them, just like gen z adapted to preferring typing over answering the phone.
maybe that could be the future of post-gen z generation.
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#14Does anyone else feel like their brain is broken when thinking about questions like this one? I lean way too much on the pessimistic side about any tool or technology, present or future, to the point that I don't trust my own judgement to predict these things at all.
I think it means you hang around too many old people. Younger people have a good feel for what's changing and the optimism.
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#15Liquid biopsy for early cancer detection.
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#16Virtual reality, at long last, driven by furries.
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#17Capability Based Security - Our operating systems are based on a security model that is great for the academic and research organizations of the 1970s. It trusts everything except the users.
Capability Based Security inverts this, the user is trusted, and given powerful tools to allow running code without trusting it. Usability and performance aren't sacrificed.
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#18Aneutronic Helium 3/Boron fusion looks set to actually happen. The ability to generate large amounts of electricity directly, instead of having to boil water to make steam to turn turbines, removes a huge cross section of limitations from the otherwise mundane area of power generation.
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#20Quantum computing APIs will become much more accessible and start to fill real needs.