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Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by cjsuk »

nulagrithom wrote: post #218

New, exciting tech making its way in to boring, old industries. And I mean boring , old industries. There's an unbelievable amount of backwards business process that's still out there. Unless you've experienced it first hand, I really don't think you can fully appreciate how manual the "business world" still is. For the past year I've been working with an intermodal trucking company building an app for owner-operator…

I built exactly the same system just over 13 years ago. I'd love to be doing that now as the technology wasn't really there back then. GPRS and windows mobile was all there was.

You're right. It sounds boring but it was great fun!

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Post by jenkstom »

nulagrithom wrote: post #218

New, exciting tech making its way in to boring, old industries. And I mean boring , old industries. There's an unbelievable amount of backwards business process that's still out there. Unless you've experienced it first hand, I really don't think you can fully appreciate how manual the "business world" still is. For the past year I've been working with an intermodal trucking company building an app for owner-operator…

You've got a lot of competition. Transflo is the 800 pound gorilla in this space. But there are quite a few small providers working very hard to get into it.

And integration is the challenge. Integration into sometimes archaic dispatch systems . TMW Innovative is still an RPG green-screen system on IBM I Power systems and they have thousands of customers. They have a "web" version that is just a green screen scraper, which isn't bad, but is is slow.

All that to say this industry is ripe for innovation, especially for small carriers that have to implement elogs by December. It's an interesting year in trucking.

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Post by arca_vorago »

daxfohl wrote: post #228
chaosbutters314 wrote: post #177

Affordable triple digit core desktop computers. The cloud is fine but until I'm getting Google fiber in every city, this'll need to suffice. The application is HTC applications in industry design

A core for every browser tab!

With how bad most webpages are these days its almost not even hyperbolic. No script really woke me up to how much bullshit most pages try to load.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by tech2 »

Large-scale low-cost metal 3D printing. We're _very_ close and it could be a game changer for a number of industries since the price for one unit is very close to the mass-production per-unit cost. It could allow custom-fit application or modification of a design on a per-customer level for things that would in the past require significant outlay.

If I need a new part for something that's no longer supported, no problem. If I want to test an idea, fine. etc.

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Post by untog »

jedberg wrote: post #156
amelius wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think AR will become a "thing"? Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? If you'd ask me, this idea could just as well end the same way as 3D TV.

> Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? Absolutely! If I could wear some regular looking glasses that could identify objects, give me directions, etc, I would totally wear them. I'm really good with faces, in that I can see someone after a long time and know that I know them, but I'm really bad with names, so I can never remember their name. If I could have glasses that looked in…

It's worth pondering why Google Glass totally failed as a consumer product before we get too excited about this.

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Post by akavel »

For me personally, currently my absolute top reason I'm dying of excitement is http://www.luna-lang.org/ Only I'm not sure if they're gonna manage to get a release out of the door; I have an impression that they understand that it's their top priority and main focus now, but I'm not sure if they really realize how far they they need to go with sacrificing features and cutting it down to absolute bare essentials, to avoid faltering into endless development hell.

That said, I have some tiny glimmer of hope that even if they go vaporware, maybe someone e.g. from around the Lambda the Ultimate community might possibly try to revive their ideas and ignite some F/OSS clone.

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Post by akavel »

zimablue wrote: post #181

For me, I'd like online IDEs to be standard (and therefore equally good) and graph wikipedias for arguments (like Argumans but mainstream). I can see the advantages of both of these and imagine (and have seen people) build them so I assume someone will fully crack this in the next few years and we'll all be using this. What might be around the corner that I'd love: someone makes a mainstream general purpose visual pr…

As to the language, that's my hope too, specifically I'm crossing fingers super hard for http://luna-lang.org

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by snewk »

untog wrote: post #316
jedberg wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? Absolutely! If I could wear some regular looking glasses that could identify objects, give me directions, etc, I would totally wear them. I'm really good with faces, in that I can see someone after a long time and know that I know them, but I'm really bad with names, so I can never remember their name. If I could have glasses that looked in…

It's worth pondering why Google Glass totally failed as a consumer product before we get too excited about this.

google glass wasn’t really AR the same way that arkit is.

glass was more of a novelty camera you wore on your face. it was extremely unfashionable, and quickly became associated with “people trying to record you” and invasion of privacy in general.

i think if apple releases some kind of headset, it will look more like regular eyewear. it will also unquestionably be for augmented reality. society probably won’t conflate it with someone trying to snap candid shots like glass.

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