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Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by subashkc1 »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #12

Apple will release a new MacBook with no screen, keyboard, trackpad or ports. Conversing with it will be like a scene from 2001. Google will retire search and replace it with something mildly social. Elon Musk will announce something so bizarre that only a person completely isolated from humanity could think it's a good idea. Oracle will continue to screw its customers (this is the only one I'm certain about). Window…

Apple will release a new MacBook with no screen, keyboard, trackpad or ports. Conversing with it will be like a scene from 2001. - This is the only one I'm certain about. :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by nakedgrape »

muzani wrote: post #18

2018: Bitcoin goes full bubble. You'll have more mainstream experts implying it will hit $1M. The more technical people will pull out entirely or try out altcoins. Bitcoin has a limited window to step up their game. Possibly see ETH take over or even Bitcoin Cash. It would either be year of the altcoin or crypto crash. Longer term: Increased H1B restrictions and high Silicon Valley land prices would make investors lo…

Startup has been so overused at this point that has totally lost all its appeal. Anybody with a T-shirt with a logo has a startup. I once heard my landlord call her renting two of her spare rooms of her house a startup.

The other buzzwords I'd add in is "engineer" and "lab", though I don't see them going away anytime soon. Everybody's a bloody engineer, and every company is a lab. Grotesque.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by sudouser »

closeparen wrote: post #17
sudouser wrote: post #3

more 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 :)

I predict that techies and other classes will be increasingly in the same boat as real estate prices grow beyond even high-end tech compensation. San Francisco prices out tech and becomes entirely the domain of real estate investors and the global .01%. Traffic congestion and transit crowding let up as the occupancy rate plummets. Some form of vacancy tax is passed, but it’s toothless. Might not be this year, but wit…

forgot about google building a city nearby ,so probably prices will plummet which means even more companies will want to establish in sf ...

anyway , will be an interesting place with the 0.01% alongside bums...

Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by closeparen »

sudouser wrote: post #24
closeparen wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I predict that techies and other classes will be increasingly in the same boat as real estate prices grow beyond even high-end tech compensation. San Francisco prices out tech and becomes entirely the domain of real estate investors and the global .01%. Traffic congestion and transit crowding let up as the occupancy rate plummets. Some form of vacancy tax is passed, but it’s toothless. Might not be this year, but wit…

forgot about google building a city nearby ,so probably prices will plummet which means even more companies will want to establish in sf ... anyway , will be an interesting place with the 0.01% alongside bums...

10,000 homes is more of a village, but ok. Prices plummeting would be great!

Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by jazoom »

philtar wrote: post #5

BigCo 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…

> 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.

... And releases four more video/messaging apps along with three more banking/wallet apps just in case their current properties fail.

Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by ladberg »

ixacto wrote: post #26

The median home price in Seattle proper passes $1million. SF median home price passes $2million. Microsoft/google busses start to get rocks thrown at them, hire private security escorts.

I'll leave this here: https://www.cultofmac.com/523837/apple-shuttle-buses-come-re...

Re: Ask HN: What is your one tech prediction for 2018?

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Post by scalesolved »

muzani wrote: post #18

2018: Bitcoin goes full bubble. You'll have more mainstream experts implying it will hit $1M. The more technical people will pull out entirely or try out altcoins. Bitcoin has a limited window to step up their game. Possibly see ETH take over or even Bitcoin Cash. It would either be year of the altcoin or crypto crash. Longer term: Increased H1B restrictions and high Silicon Valley land prices would make investors lo…

Bitcoin Cash is extremely unlikely to overtake Bitcoin, way less volume and it's losing the appeal of faster and cheaper transactions. Bitcoin has a huge chunk of the current crypto currency market and a massive lead in mind share.
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