Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by brianhorakh » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

cprayingmantis wrote: post #10

I think small to mid scale farm ag-tech is going to become huge in the next decade. We already see large industrial farms making use of more and more tech what happens when that tech scale shrinks down.

I work on this. Ai driven garden appliances. Biogensis accelerators. This type of tech is hard to make reliable and user friendly. Requires a lot of sensors and lab equipment to be engineered, mass produced, user friendly and reliable. One discrete failure and it kills the crop.

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by cocktailpeanuts » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

plexiglas wrote: post #8

Social media retirement services.

This sounds logical but do you think it will be mainstream as in Instagram level mainstream? Maybe a bit more explanation will be helpful.

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by dvh » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

Elysium

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by cocktailpeanuts » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #2

webassembly

Why will it take off in the next couple of years? Any changes coming?

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by bovermyer » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

Open agriculture.

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by brianhorakh » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

ape4 wrote: post #7

Generically engineered plants for the home

You mean "genetically"? They already are.. Like roses, or most patented strains. Lots of research into cannabis. What do you think these plants do?

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by zamboni-killer » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

Smart Tattoos. Color E-ink displays. Eventually: holographic VR.

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by dx87 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

cprayingmantis wrote: post #10

I think small to mid scale farm ag-tech is going to become huge in the next decade. We already see large industrial farms making use of more and more tech what happens when that tech scale shrinks down.

Same. I think covid has made a lot of people question the idea of relying on a few large suppliers for all their needs, and expect we'll start seeing neighborhood farms to provide supplemental produce in preparation for future events that cause long-term disruptions to daily life.

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by brianhorakh » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

bovermyer wrote: post #25

Open agriculture.

Every farmer i talk to about this doesn't store their data in compatible formats (yet) There are no standards.

Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?

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Post by pjmorris » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #11

No code/low code. People here underestimate the work it requires to craft a production CRUD app and keep it working. The problem these tools solve are more related to infrastructure rather than one's ability to code. Learning to code might be the easiest part but deploying it, maintaining it, scaling it, securing it and integrating it with thousands of other services remains a huge task even for experienced folks. It…

> The problem these tools solve are more related to infrastructure rather than one's ability to code.

So... SaaS?