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Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
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#62By the end of the year, we'll have started a new roaring 20's. People are pent-up--eager to travel, excited to be with friends, vacation, go to bars, party, see movies. Pent-up demand will help kick-start the economy. Work from home is normalized. Commercial real estate prices will drop as companies pare-down their office space. Wework has better prospects than ever. Travel stocks and in person events go crazy. A ren…
> Deepfakes start to surface in the public consciousness in a way they haven't so far. None of this is good.
The scary Deepfakes will be the ones that are 90% benevolent with 10% subtle naughty bits. They'll go undetected by the press. Imagine spreading anti-CCP propaganda in China but not in obvious ways that it can go under the radar of CCP censorship. Complete disarray.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
#63Tech stocks will drop
More no code platforms will emerge and grow
Fiat currencies will have major moves
Bitcoin will rise big and then drop sharply once people realize how useless it is
Inequality will continue to grow. More controls will be put in place to keep disadvantaged in line. Surveillance, social controls, brainwashing
Real estate will have volatility
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#64Ghislaine Maxwell will either get bail and disappear or die by suicide in jail within the next 3 months.
Companies will push to have an annual Corona Virus Vaccine. Covered by insurance and mandated as much as possible.
RISC-V will start to show up in peoples hands.
Something interesting will happen with Intel.
That's really all I got, and two of them are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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#65Kamala Harris will be President by July.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
#66There will be outbreaks of COVID-19 for at least a decade, as well as new strains of it.
Companies will embrace remote work after they realize they can stop paying for expensive offices and all the expensive services associated to them.
AI/ML will get better at learning and all the skepticals will be ridiculed forever.
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#67There will be a 20 % increase in Toronto Real Estate. Average house price will be well over a million $$$.
Cannabis will be decriminalized at the Federal level.
Covid Fatigue, no one will give a shit by summer.
DOW 36k. There is no limit to the amount of stimulus.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
#68Software Bill of Material (SBOM) will become more of a thing - where you must list the dependencies and their hash you used for supply-chain security and vulnerability management. New law enforcement techniques using DNS and other Intel techniques will be used to track, seize and tax cryptocurrency - which will cause increased popularity of Ethereum. A qubit will travel around the world without decohering and increas…
I hope the Bill of Materials concept spreads to more areas of software development.
A bit different from your example, but a small group of us started a "Bill of Models" project for our department. We spent too much time failing to manage complexity with fancy tools. We ended up writing our own simple tool for reading custom BOMs to create and manage simulations.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
#69Only negativity so something optimistic to talk about:
- Vaccine program will mobilize and kick start the economy. Big Time. New restaurants will open up, it will be like a forest fire that wiped out the trees but new vegetation will grow. New business will start up.
- Travel is going to be out of control once everyone is vaccinated and cases plummet after herd immunity is reached.
- Python will have a great dep management finally.
- M1X is going to ignite the competition from AMD/Intel.
- US Senate will go blue next week. New pro-democracy laws will be passed in next 2 years after this shit show.
- Remote only jobs and startups will invigorate local towns and decentralization of cities. Local ISPs, local farming, local means of production.
- SpaceX starship will demonstrate further success.
Long Term:
- US, EU, APEC region will start becoming less reliant on China over the course of next 10 years. Fungibility of supply chain and decentralization. Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philipines, Eastern Europe, Mexico will see rise in manufacturing industries.
- New chip companies outside of Taiwan.
- Defense spending will go through the roof, defense stocks will do exceptionally well.
- Globalism 2.0 will put checks and balances for healthier international cooperation.
Re: Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
#70Apple Fitness+ will be their fastest growing service, and Apple Watch Series 7 will have non-invasive glucose monitoring.