VR. People living in a place/time/body they physically aren't. When I'm old I'd like to VR to all the places I missed out on visiting because I was working too hard. I won't be alone.
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?
#62India. Because it will go from 100mn internet users to 1200 mn, enabled by a massive 4G/fiber deployment currently underway.
I agree. I think India is positioned to do quite well, but what happens to the pollution in five years?
It's not going to magically become better. This is the thing lurking in the shadows that will cause major problems.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#63The atheist generation will have grown up and begin to look for someone to tell them everything will be okay. It's a good opportunity to start a new religion. Also, some form of artificial companionship.
A new religion based around what? Is this religion supposed to actually be believed? This is one of my favorite videos which explains why new religions don't have as much credibility https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEg_Oys4NkA You have to watch the video to probably get the basic idea. I'm not Jewish despite the video focusing on Judaism.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#64The atheist generation will have grown up and begin to look for someone to tell them everything will be okay. It's a good opportunity to start a new religion. Also, some form of artificial companionship.
A new religion based around what? Is this religion supposed to actually be believed? This is one of my favorite videos which explains why new religions don't have as much credibility https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEg_Oys4NkA You have to watch the video to probably get the basic idea. I'm not Jewish despite the video focusing on Judaism.
Which direction is the zeitgeist blowing? From my perspective, it seems that there is a real and ongoing erosion of local communities (labor, religious, or otherwise) that are replaced, often times, by a shallow virtual existence. It does not have to be a religion in the conventional sense, just something that attempts to give meaning to the meaningless.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#65VR. People living in a place/time/body they physically aren't. When I'm old I'd like to VR to all the places I missed out on visiting because I was working too hard. I won't be alone.
People have been banging on about VR for years, I don't see it ever becoming more than a niche thing.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#66Anything to do with mitigating climate change, clearly we aren't going to do anything significant to stop it.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#67Low cost cloud providers. No idea why there's not a low cost competitor to AWS, GCE, and Azure. And I don't mean just a VPS. Full service cloud with equivalents for EC2, ELB, S3, Lambda, etc.
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#68Low cost cloud providers. No idea why there's not a low cost competitor to AWS, GCE, and Azure. And I don't mean just a VPS. Full service cloud with equivalents for EC2, ELB, S3, Lambda, etc.
> Low cost cloud providers...
I second this.
The 2 billion people coming online in the next decade will be from the developing world and the developers serving them wont pay the kind of fees that AWS et al currently charge for cloud services.
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#69 Timescales are hard but...Ai will do mostly all of it and humans are being factored out. Humans will need not apply for real work, fake work could proliferate. Automation vertically integrated into robotic systems will prevail in mostly all sectors... Embodied AGI will autonomously operate under duress, capable of or superior to humans at warfare. This is already normal today to a lesser extent, but not publicly claimed by anyone. I believe this is so because a soldier never reveals his position. Superior Industries could be: computer hacking using AI, computers being used in new ways on a mass scale, super computer quantum computing, nanotechnology, organ replacement, DNA therapies, automated field doctors, 3d PTSD therapy machines, data thievery & recovery using AI. AI will cause crime sprees as new exploits using AI trump non-AI systems. Also, People plugging their brains into computers makes sense bc then we achieve intelligence upgrades.3d printers that print anything fast. Lifelong AI Buddies/monitors. Nostalgia Industries as old people feel really out of touch with the modern world. Propaganda and fake news bc they will be more effectively convincing bc AI. As AI really starts to prove itself superior People will question everything. Maybe we will want to colonize Mars bc it will make humans feel not obsolete. Who knows.
Re: Ask HN: In the next 5 years which markets will grow the most and why?
#70I think food technology. As the worlds population grows, the demand for food and more productive ways to produce it will grow.
I think semi-automated systems will become more automated using some of the AI that is in the news today.
We may even see better automation on the programming front in terms of being able to create stuff.
I think we will see more software and automation in government at all levels. There is drive to automate everything, but governments tend to be even slower than enterprise to adopt things given the budgetary process.
Lastly, I think we will see some significant gains in genetic programming that come out of the CRISPR technique. If you recall the tech that allowed us to sequence the human genome was very slow at first. Eventually they developed faster techniques, and not you can sequence things an order of magnitude faster.