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My colleague and boss in 2014, 2016, 2017...
Well that's on them, nobody in their right mind would say that people are gonna like having big bulky computer thingy on their head. That doesn't mean we won't be getting laser retinal projection in the next 10-20 years.
If all of reality is able to be piped into Unity (structure of static environment, motion of sensors, dynamic object poses) you can build Reality Apps the same as you can build video games.
You can give people spidey-senses or "the force". Everything will have a UX.
There are a few trends that are tiptoeing on the edges here:
- tools for thought / creative tools (Muse, Nodes.io, Mem, etc)
- end-user programming (people trying everything from visual PL's to simpler / more constrained programming interfaces)
- local-first software (https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/)
- web3 - I'm biased here and a bit skeptical of the fervor here, but matches some of the ethos / philosophy
- more customizable / hackable personal computing hardware (https://frame.work/)
- spatial + tactile computing so the body can participate in the thinking process (instead of only the 'head'): https://dynamicland.org/
- explorables, games / interactive viz to quickly transfer rich context: https://explorabl.es/
- video games, often indie ones, are exploring deep ideas: see Zachtronics games, Jonathan Blow's games, some of Annapurna Interactive funded games, etc. So many!
- open data: better end-user data tools so anyone can understand the systems around them
2032? Hard to say, but it is quite possible that software and the web will actually look quite similar to what we have now. I found the concepts in this presentation quite intriguing [1]. Some stuff like airplanes haven't changed THAT much in the last 50 years, because they are good enough for their purpose.
[1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
VR/AR will be big one day.
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Reducing the usage and having an actual degrowth of electronic devices consumption, and especially power consumption. If we are not choosing to go there, physics will teach us the hard way (it already begun). Basically any region/country that is able to do the same, with less hardware, less energy will have a big advantage over the other regions/countries in the upcoming years.
Projects like Zig I think are the first signs that we are getting fed up with what we have.
The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time. Relational Databases, data structures, programming paradigms, math, etc. Even in machine learning, just knowing core statistics and regression is more important than HottestNewArchitecture :TM:.
Learn the ideas underneath these ideas, and you'll really grow and be able to better evaluate / learn new ideas.