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Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by Jihoon »

NhanH wrote: post #3
Jihoon wrote: post #2

I think it will (or at least should) become easier to meet people online with similar interests - and I'm not talking about dating. Given that there are 2 billion people on the Internet, this shouldn't really be a problem. Yet, social media sites like Facebook limit us, for the most part, to people we know in real life. With that said, I think we should be careful of where our collective conscious takes us.

To expand on this a bit, for better or worse, most of human's collective knowledge is still locked up in people head, be it cutting edge researching knowledge, industrial mainstream knowledge, or obscure hobby one. Notice that how in programming, you only got knowledge of the very basic, and then a glimpse of knowledge on the very high end (multiple distributed huge data center etc.). There is a huge swath of missing…

"For a more concrete idea, think of a small but active mailing list, IRC channel, or subreddit, that's approximately the desirable result. If you can, make those mainstream, pretty please :-)"

I've actually been working on a side project for a couple of weeks - it's a chatroom-based community. I think it'd be nice to have a place where people could go and talk about specific topics, without having it be all about "content", and without the judgmental weed-out process that karma-based sites force on users. Kind of like a live version of Reddit, you know? As useful as IRC is, I don't think it will ever become mainstream.

Anyways, here it is - let me know what you think! http://www.toka.io/

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Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by digitalzombie »

VR games.

Smart watches.

Fitness devices. Millenium Generation are putting more money into fitness stuff and Under Armor just bought myfitnesspal app. Google released their own. Those things will amass a good amount of big data for companies so I see that becoming big.

Electric cars. Tesla really pushed it. BMW and Nissan is embracing it. All the hyper cars are moving to hybrid right now. It's easy to see where the direction is going.

Machine learning/ Data science. It's going to grow. As for the tech stack I'm not entirely sure, but I know Spark will be vying for some market share if they keep the momentum up but Flink can be an underdog. Eventually, we might get a good realtime framework/software instead of batches and micro batches.

Scala is going to go down as people are going to see how complicated the language is really. I've seen few move to Clojure. That's the trend I'm predicting for this language.

Autonomous cars ain't going to be here by 2018.

Things I think will not be a trend:

I wouldn't add google glasses type of thing because I don't think the technology is there to make it last more than an hour or two really.

Open Source Graph data base. Titan is going to going to die and there won't be any promising open source one in the horizon and I'm sadden by this.

Front side js rendering is going to be still fighting for dominance. React, angular, ember, etc... It'll have massive code base shift with ECMA 6 and nothing will settle and everything is still wild wild west in this frontier.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by eswat »

Joona wrote: post #6

eSports. There was a large CS:GO/LoL/SC2 tournament last weekend, where CS:GO gathered over 1 million concurrent viewers during finals (last tournament had 460K!). While LoL has been a big player for a while, and probably continues to be in Asia, CS:GO is growing rapidly in the west.

It’s worth noting that Counter-Strike has been around far longer than most games in eSports. But a few tweaks made in Global Offensive, such as more reliance on managing money/economy, made it as compelling to watch as games like LoL or SC2 because it’s more than just watching dudes shooting at each other. Now it’s getting more playtime in tournaments than ever.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by proveanegative »

digitalzombie wrote: post #13

VR games. Smart watches. Fitness devices. Millenium Generation are putting more money into fitness stuff and Under Armor just bought myfitnesspal app. Google released their own. Those things will amass a good amount of big data for companies so I see that becoming big. Electric cars. Tesla really pushed it. BMW and Nissan is embracing it. All the hyper cars are moving to hybrid right now. It's easy to see where the d…

>Scala is going to go down as people are going to see how complicated the language is really. I've seen few move to Clojure. That's the trend I'm predicting for this language.

Interesting prediction. What do you think will be the fate of other JVM languages?

>Open Source Graph data base. Titan is going to going to die and there won't be any promising open source one in the horizon and I'm sadden by this.

Why not OrientDB?

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by lordnacho »

Consumer health testing. Tech has advanced to the point where a tiny sample can be used to look for all sorts of chemical markers. This will lead to people getting tests done much more frequently than currently, and being informed on a running basis.

Had a chat with a founder about it today.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think the biggest trends will be in 2015-2018?

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Post by cylinder »

M8 wrote: post #8
wanda wrote: post #4

Advertising as entertainment. Brand as identity. Testimonial as opinion. News/catastrophes as entertainment. Dating as a catalogue. Love as a service. Reproduction as a life goal. These are already trends and will continue sickeningly in the near future. Anything targeting these new facts of life will do well, but at the cost of entrenching this millenial conceptual scheme.

"Reproduction as a life goal" Rate dropping in developed countries though? Did you mean consumerism?

Probably referring to the idea of having children becoming more "trendy" amongst young people ... whereas previously having a baby was seen as not "cool," i.e. something boring people settle down and do, some "trendsetters / influencers / celebrities" have been having kids and making it seem desirable.

I need a shower after writing this post.

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