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Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?
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#2blockchain all the things
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#3more inequality, even greater divide between techies and other classes, just look at the streets of San Francisco, that’s where the future is headed
but instead of a dark grim place blade-runner like, it is going to at least look colorful and sanitized with pretty google logos :)
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#4Facebook experiences its MySpace moment
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#5BigCo gets hacked. Everyone loses their mind for two days.
Google sunsets one of their services. And releases something that copies a service from one of their competitors but in an incredibly tone deaf way.
YouTuber does something terrible. Everyone is disgusted. Gains 10 million followers.
Apple releases an iPhone. Nothing new about it. Calls it the best/greatest iPhone to date.
Bitcoin gains x%. Loses x%. Is outlawed in country X. Regulated in country Y.
Redditors discover that reddit is not the bastion of free speech it pretends to be. They get angry and go to another site only to return the next week under a new subreddit.
I can go on.
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#7Vested interests continue to pwn the extant Internet.
Counter-move? Create and maintain control of distinct physical layers.
Will Musk and company provide one of these? An open question, for me.
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#8First LIDAR system in JavaScript comes out in May along with a Medium article. By December, web developers can choose between 27 new LIDAR frameworks.
Trump is kicked out of the presidency. Spends the rest of his life as a prolific twitch streamer. He also creates a GitHub profile where he hosts a TrumpScript [1] fork and an Awesome-Me list.
Bitcoin transaction speed drops to 1TPS because of its price hike back to 20k, melting a couple of glaciers in Greenland in its way. Coinbase hasn't fixed its customer support yet.
First success in farming CRISPR potatoes in Novaya Ziemlia. Putin decides Russia needs to open a vodka destillery in Arctic by 2020 and makes it part of the Russia Forward plan.
Yandex Research starts working on blockchain for alcohol supply chains. Navalny makes a career change beginning his brief, but fruitful stint as a Blockchain Researcher Senior for the company, before pulling out a Litvinenko due to being a nasty code reviewer.
We discover that Meltdown bug can also affect sex toys. Kids grow depraved with the knowledge of what their mum had this day in her handbag.
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#9BigCo gets hacked. Everyone loses their mind for two days. Google sunsets one of their services. And releases something that copies a service from one of their competitors but in an incredibly tone deaf way. YouTuber does something terrible. Everyone is disgusted. Gains 10 million followers. Apple releases an iPhone. Nothing new about it. Calls it the best/greatest iPhone to date. Bitcoin gains x%. Loses x%. Is outla…
//I can go on.
Please do
I made many of the same predictions.
//BigCo gets hacked.
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#10First LIDAR system in JavaScript comes out in May along with a Medium article. By December, web developers can choose between 27 new LIDAR frameworks. Trump is kicked out of the presidency. Spends the rest of his life as a prolific twitch streamer. He also creates a GitHub profile where he hosts a TrumpScript [1] fork and an Awesome-Me list. Bitcoin transaction speed drops to 1TPS because of its price hike back to 20…
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