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Ask HN: What's going to be the next big thing?

#1
We have seen the emergence and potential disruption of VR, Autonomous cars and extensive research being done in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining et al in the past few years.

What according to you would be the next disruptive technology which is currently not popular?

Better programming languages? Quantum computing?

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#3
Spoken language interfaces. My 10 year old uses the voice input on her Android phone all the time. "What's the weather today?" "What's the weather tomorrow in Lexington?" "Set an alarm for 6:00am." Some of those just bring up a web page, but talking back would be great.

I've seen the notion of electronic assistant as an obvious next thing for some time. "Bring up that pdf file I was reading yesterday."

I wish the Sync interface on my car was more conversational than it is - it's much like a verbal menu today.

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#4
IoT technologies will disrupt most major industries. It's like 1995 right now for IoT and businesses are wondering if they ought to have a website.

As more operations and products come online, data platforms will become standardized. The skills gap will be bridged, through AI / Machine Learning and more data-literacy educational training.

I actually expect mobile device sales to slow down as the number of connected devices per person grows. We won't need to always carry fragile expensive lil' phones anymore -- we will be able to communicate, connect, work with information, and engage with applications in new unexpected ways.

"Experience Design" and "Data Management" training will be necessary...

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#6
There are a lot of really interesting things happening in BI. First, many accounting and some business grads are now coming with database knowledge.

They're able to gain insights from data that the older generations in this space didn't have the skills to do.

Way more interesting to me are advances like Amazon's QuickSight [1] which is geared towards business data. You can just upload stuff (CSVs, ERP databases, etc.) and, perhaps, gain some insights. As they build intelligence around similar business data sets it should improve over time.

Next big thing, perhaps not. But definitely something to keep an eye on, at least in my space.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/

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#7

IoT technologies will disrupt most major industries. It's like 1995 right now for IoT and businesses are wondering if they ought to have a website. As more operations and products come online, data platforms will become standardized. The skills gap will be bridged, through AI / Machine Learning and more data-literacy educational training. I actually expect mobile device sales to slow down as the number of connected d…

Who will standardize it?

Nobody seems to have a clue how to standardize.

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