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Math, physics, chemistry won't change. Who knows if software will be nearly recognizable in 10-20 years from now, but the reality of the world will not.
- Unless somebody finds a polynomial algorithm for an NP-complete problem (which is a taller order than just proving P=NP), several interesting problems will continue to be infeasible to solve exactly in the general case with large data.
- If, in addition, quantum computers don't prove to be viable, commonly used cryptosystems such as RSA, AES, ECC, will probably continue to be secure provided they're used correctly.
- Results like the Two Generals Problem, the CAP theorem, etc. will still make distributed systems difficult to work with and require tradeoffs.
- Rice's theorem, that it is impossible to determine computational properties of arbitrary programs, will still apply, making static analysis (including antivirus programs, security scans, etc.) heuristic rather than exact.
- etc.
People submitting Ask HN's without proofreading
Human nature, and the rate of learning.
I wonder about the latter. It's known that high quality, one-on-one teaching can greatly improve learning speed. Could near future generation AI learn to be a teacher on par with the best human ones?
I'm in edtech building this.
it's like having 1 teacher with 25 assistants.
People building things without first checking if anyone actually wants or needs them first.
Math, physics, chemistry won't change. Who knows if software will be nearly recognizable in 10-20 years from now, but the reality of the world will not.
The whole beauty of science is that it doesn't ever claim to have static, absolute answers - it's constantly growing and changing as we learn more about everything.
Likewise, the humanities are always growing and changing and being reinterpreted, reflecting what and how we can understand now.
> Who knows if software will be nearly recognizable in 10-20 years from now
Software goes through rapid cycles of invention and forgetting what's come before. Its totem animal is a Nobel laureate goldfish. That doesn't change.