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Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by lbotos »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #5
NhanH wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To expand on this a bit, for better or worse, most of human's collective knowledge is still locked up in people head, be it cutting edge researching knowledge, industrial mainstream knowledge, or obscure hobby one. Notice that how in programming, you only got knowledge of the very basic, and then a glimpse of knowledge on the very high end (multiple distributed huge data center etc.). There is a huge swath of missing…

Maybe there's a market or an app for the 'Freelance Teacher', if there isn't already and I'm just ignorant. One-on-One connectivity with a (self proclaimed?) subject matter expert, where the subject could be anything. Things like Reddit and Quora exist, and Ask HN, how to wikis, guide web pages, etc. etc. but one issue I have with the forum style is that it doesn't foster a student-teacher / master-apprentice experie…

Hackhands/Codementor/AirPair are in this realm, but you have to pay.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by bbcbasic »

Microinvesting - ordinary people able to invest in a share of company (startup or established but unfloated) or land in an easy and realistic way. Conversely any company, new, small or large can attract money this way. Caveat emptor!

Middle finger to the city - smart people use big cities for networking and to meet people, then start up their businesses in a town miles away and say fuck you to those overheads. Tech could facilitate this. Previously unknown small towns around the world become the next silicon valleys.

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Post by tptacek »

bbcbasic wrote: post #22

Microinvesting - ordinary people able to invest in a share of company (startup or established but unfloated) or land in an easy and realistic way. Conversely any company, new, small or large can attract money this way. Caveat emptor! Middle finger to the city - smart people use big cities for networking and to meet people, then start up their businesses in a town miles away and say fuck you to those overheads. Tech c…

I have a blog post I've been playing with for about 4 months now about how broader, more diverse investor communities for startups is likely to backfire. The right people to be investing in them is probably the group that's doing it now. They could be smarter, but it's unclear to me that there should be more of them.

What set me off was the Startup Podcast episode on equity crowdfunding platforms.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by tptacek »

Shift in tech from full-time employment to contracting, working it's way down from the high-end specialties towards generalist programming. Tools and business services that make contracting easier to manage as a sole practitioner. Maybe, if we're lucky, new business systems (insurance?) that de-risks the contracting sales pipeline and utilization volatility.

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Post by dhagz »

bbcbasic wrote: post #22

Microinvesting - ordinary people able to invest in a share of company (startup or established but unfloated) or land in an easy and realistic way. Conversely any company, new, small or large can attract money this way. Caveat emptor! Middle finger to the city - smart people use big cities for networking and to meet people, then start up their businesses in a town miles away and say fuck you to those overheads. Tech c…

I especially see your second point becoming big by the end of this year. Especially with the rising costs in Silicon Valley. I see smaller cities doing everything they can to bring in these startups and even more established businesses. I work in a suburb of Atlanta, and it's fantastic. The commute is less than half an hour, the location is great - downtown Lawrenceville - and I don't have to lose out on the benefits of Atlanta networking.

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Post by cyberjunkie »

wanda wrote: post #4

Advertising as entertainment. Brand as identity. Testimonial as opinion. News/catastrophes as entertainment. Dating as a catalogue. Love as a service. Reproduction as a life goal. These are already trends and will continue sickeningly in the near future. Anything targeting these new facts of life will do well, but at the cost of entrenching this millenial conceptual scheme.

Oh, I love your comment. The word to represent all of it as you said is right, sickening.

Has humanity and its evolution peaked and are we soon headed into a downward spiral turning into a retarded society? Is the pride of our advancements our undoing?

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by cyberjunkie »

Here are some of mine -

Emergence of VR and related technologies (it's a trend in this thread as well)

Failing startups in the hundreds, who've exhausted their funding by then.

Smartwatches/health bands

Beginning or mobile phone stagnancy

4K TVs and displays may start picking up

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by Jayd2014 »

jhildings wrote: post #17

Internet of things seems to be one of the buzzwords for nowdays, with wearables and smart watches and everything controlling your home

Internet of Things will have somehow the same fate as IPv6. Some will adopt it, manufacturers will push for it, but nobody will care about it. It will be a niche for a few years before the market is ready for it.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by mkaziz »

cylinder wrote: post #20
M8 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Reproduction as a life goal" Rate dropping in developed countries though? Did you mean consumerism?

Probably referring to the idea of having children becoming more "trendy" amongst young people ... whereas previously having a baby was seen as not "cool," i.e. something boring people settle down and do, some "trendsetters / influencers / celebrities" have been having kids and making it seem desirable. I need a shower after writing this post.

I haven't seen this trend, really. Most of my friends want to wait a fair while before having kids.
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