Multitenancy IoT. A lot of IoT infrastructure just serves one person or company.
Once that changes large scale IoT investments will make a lot more sense.
Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
#152Web3 will go through its current hype cycle peak (with lots of people both hyping and hating it), and in a few years we will see what actually comes of it. I predict we will find some interesting unforeseeable use cases for decentralized computing/currency, but it'll take some time.
Yes I think semantic technologies will become more popular as the performance overhead will be less a problem.
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#153Hyper IOTization. I'm coining the term. - pots that tell you when they are hot. - bikes that say their tires are flat. - weights that track how many reps you did. - shoes that tell you: stop landing on your heels so hard. - pillboxes that shove pills down your throat. - pillboxes that shove politics down your throat. - chargers that tell you their pronouns are he/him. - coffee mugs that tell you weather. - pants that…
> pots that tell you when they are hot. Tell you how? Send you a text? Yeah, no. Do not need. Tell you verbally (because they expect that you're within earshot of the kitchen)? Maybe. > bikes that say their tires are flat. Useful, even if they do it by text. > weights that track how many reps you did. Marginally useful. I can count fairly well. > shoes that tell you: stop landing on your heels so hard. Useful, but mo…
Your response comes a bit across as old-man-yells-at-clouds.gif, I'm mildly amused. ;) If you wouldn't object, I'd like to change you to be a bit more open-minded: read Doctorow's sci-fi novel "Makers" which paints a more coherent, broad picture of a world with similar elements that GP mentioned. Book review: https://www.wired.com/2011/05/cory-doctorow-predicts-the-fut...
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
#154If Musk gets Starship to work and is successful in driving down the costs of launching material into LEO by another couple of orders of magnitude as intended then you can expect to see an explosion in the numbers of cheap and cheerful cubesats, not to mention experimental LEO factories and general weird stuff floating around in orbit. There will be a massive need for people to write control code and to process the da…
Seems like it could be a textbook case of first-mover advantage.
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
#155Real personal computing, that benefits end-users on their terms. In the Future of Coding community, we often use the analogy of "home cooking". As in, we have restaurants & professional chefs but not enough home cooks in computing. Tools & processes are super different when you're cooking for yourself / family vs for a restaurant! There are a few trends that are tiptoeing on the edges here: - tools for thought / crea…
Curious, when you say open data so anyone can understand the systems around them, what do you mean? What isn't working?
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
#156I don't know, but i'm pretty sure its going to be nothing that's listed here. Everything listed here is stuff at the high end of the hype cycle. Everyone is already looking at it. The next big thing is going to be something nobody is looking at. If people are already looking, it would have already happened.
There's multiple cycles. Hype usually predates the technology by several years. Drones are common now. But the last drone hype I saw was 20 years ago. AI has been around longer than I was born. Stuff like DDD and functional programming are ancient but they've become more popular in recent years. I think it takes a long time. Often the tech is a puzzle piece when we don't have the rest of the puzzle yet.
I think VR definitely fit this. What we are seeing now is like the web 2.0 wave of VR.
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
#157I'm not sure if it will end up being the case, but I would like to hope that open firmware and/or hardware will become a big thing in the next decade. Open source software has been such a game changer, and it would be amazing if we could realise the same benefits in the embedded/hardware sphere.
I cannot imagine people having mini fabs at their house like that have 3d printers. But, the technology could reach the point where making an ASIC could be dirt cheap. Imagine being able to get your own chip created at a micro fab for dirt cheap?
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#158Not personally excited for this, but I think the next big thing will be the internet and computers becoming "hyper-transactional" through crypto. I believe this is what companies like Facebook are really pushing toward when they talk about Web 3.0 and the metaverse. It will still, for the most part, be the same internet accessed through phones and computers, but videogame-style micro-transactions powered by crypto wi…
I wonder if this starts to pan out whether it might lead to something like the below comment regarding reduced consumption of digital media. I can see a scenario where the majority of businesses/apps/sites that implement this see a significant drop in traffic. Generally, people like stuff for free, and even though the expression of anti-advertising is in vogue, I find it hard to believe that the majority of people wo…
Imagine getting paid in crypto to watch ads on a platform? This would be an interesting incentive.
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#159Blocked Spam will be a big thing!
Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing in computing / programming?
#160Real personal computing, that benefits end-users on their terms. In the Future of Coding community, we often use the analogy of "home cooking". As in, we have restaurants & professional chefs but not enough home cooks in computing. Tools & processes are super different when you're cooking for yourself / family vs for a restaurant! There are a few trends that are tiptoeing on the edges here: - tools for thought / crea…
Curious, when you say open data so anyone can understand the systems around them, what do you mean? What isn't working?
It's insanely laborious to pull in information from datasets on systems, quickly transform them to approximate the answer to a question you're trying to answer, and have a discussion around it. Some examples:
- Have restaurants in my local town started to close earlier because of worker shortages, COVID, and the chaos of the last 2 years? - Which nearby public parks are both free, open right now, and not too busy? And also will it rain soon?
The state of the art for this is probably CSV's & Excel / spreadsheet, with lots of limitations. Most datasets are hidden behind obscure API's, available only to programmers.
And then let's say you want to have this type of computational conversation while sitting around the dinner table? Forget about it