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Imagine a personal assistant that you could have a full on conversation with. I don't believe this requires full-blown AGI to achieve, but improvements in language and human understanding by ML might get us there.
Think something like the Computer from Star Trek NG.
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> The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time. This is spot on in my experience. As I grow in my career as a software engineer, it's funny how much more often I notice that the things that set one apart in the field is a level-headed understanding of the fundamentals and a calm resolve to take into consideration what's worked in the past, much more than one's ability to "chase the shin…
So true. For me it has become RegEx, Email, Email Servers/security, Excel, and sorting. Never thought I'd go on about it, but man. It apparently is my niche.
I'm not sure if it will end up being the case, but I would like to hope that open firmware and/or hardware will become a big thing in the next decade. Open source software has been such a game changer, and it would be amazing if we could realise the same benefits in the embedded/hardware sphere.
I second this and for several major reasons: 1. Prices are down(yes, lower down your guns). I'm not talking about CPUs or GPUs but embedded products. It's absolutely mind blowing that you can get the computational power of a mid-90's computer with the size of a coin for just a few bucks. Same goes for sensors, transceivers, motors and communication modules. 2. 3D printing has come a long way, also dirt cheap and easi…
Not personally excited for this, but I think the next big thing will be the internet and computers becoming "hyper-transactional" through crypto. I believe this is what companies like Facebook are really pushing toward when they talk about Web 3.0 and the metaverse. It will still, for the most part, be the same internet accessed through phones and computers, but videogame-style micro-transactions powered by crypto wi…
Real personal computing, that benefits end-users on their terms. In the Future of Coding community, we often use the analogy of "home cooking". As in, we have restaurants & professional chefs but not enough home cooks in computing. Tools & processes are super different when you're cooking for yourself / family vs for a restaurant! There are a few trends that are tiptoeing on the edges here: - tools for thought / crea…
Real personal computing, that benefits end-users on their terms. In the Future of Coding community, we often use the analogy of "home cooking". As in, we have restaurants & professional chefs but not enough home cooks in computing. Tools & processes are super different when you're cooking for yourself / family vs for a restaurant! There are a few trends that are tiptoeing on the edges here: - tools for thought / crea…
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I second this and for several major reasons: 1. Prices are down(yes, lower down your guns). I'm not talking about CPUs or GPUs but embedded products. It's absolutely mind blowing that you can get the computational power of a mid-90's computer with the size of a coin for just a few bucks. Same goes for sensors, transceivers, motors and communication modules. 2. 3D printing has come a long way, also dirt cheap and easi…
This is definitely an area that is going to grow. I think most of the initial growth will be in the low-end, cheap, disposable projects - stuff for managing your home (IoT), for example where you want as much control over the whole stack as possible. The current IoT hype has blown over a little, but the need to control various things around you in an intelligent and safe way is still an unsolved problem, worth explor…
I don't think it ever picked up: It was trying to solve a problem which didn't exist at the time. In the mid 2010's when they started popping up, the economy was growing and most of climate change, lowering carbon footprints and all that was seen as "Greta Thunberg's pretentious and delusional world" to working class citizens. And for the most part that still would have been the case if it wasn't for covid and the accompanying inflation. I don't think average Joe has learned a lesson from it or realizing how fragile our economy is. Almost like enforced necessity: "hey my electric bill is 4 times what it used to be" opens a new market. The ecosystem however was(and sadly still is) appalling: You get a hama wifi enabled light bulb, you need to download their app to set it up. You buy a Phillips one a few months later and you need to download yet another app to set it up. Not to mention the absolute hell that are both google home and alexa. Worst of all is that there are no efforts to open source alternatives(home assistant technically relies on either google or amazon). Privacy aside, their interfacing options are equally annoying. I do have a few wifi enabled light bulbs and I turn them on for my dog when I'm not at home through google and it is just as messy as it was on day one.
- pots that tell you when they are hot.
- bikes that say their tires are flat.
- weights that track how many reps you did.
- shoes that tell you: stop landing on your heels so hard.
- pillboxes that shove pills down your throat.
- pillboxes that shove politics down your throat.
- chargers that tell you their pronouns are he/him.
- coffee mugs that tell you weather.
- pants that say you've worn them too long.
- windshields that tell you to stop texting.
- food containers that tell you maybe you shouldn't eat that leftover casserole.
IOT is gonna be the next big thing, get on the hype train cause this ones for real. Don't be left behind still writing SQL.