To nitpick, isn't it really that "Selling advertising on the top of search is an extremely important and profitable business"?
...for essentially a single company.
Ask HN: What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years?
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#12Mobile phones will be your primary communication device. Most software will eventually be accessed from a browser. People will pay $15 a month in perpetuity for a single video game. Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule. All of your routine transactions are automated. So are many of the non-routine ones, such as opening a new account for anything smaller than a mortgage -- and we'…
Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule. Isn't this already done? I haven't visited or talked to anyone at a bank (other than a couple of calls to the help desk for my online banking when strange things happen) for years. Paying bills, transferring money, applying for loans smaller than a mortgage, opening and closing accounts, managing my investments. All that is trivially done on-…
>Isn't this already done?
That's the point of this topic, to discuss things that have been done but didn't seem obvious 5-10 years ago.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule. Isn't this already done? I haven't visited or talked to anyone at a bank (other than a couple of calls to the help desk for my online banking when strange things happen) for years. Paying bills, transferring money, applying for loans smaller than a mortgage, opening and closing accounts, managing my investments. All that is trivially done on-…
>Isn't this already done? That's the point of this topic, to discuss things that have been done but didn't seem obvious 5-10 years ago.
Sorry, I completely misread the question. I read it as things which will seem obvious in 5-10 years, but have yet to be fully implemented.
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#14Different languages hosted on the same VM. Ten years ago if you said JVM the only language to come to mind was Java. Now it's common to think of Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Rhino, etc. too.
And JavaScript will be the most popular language, by far, for most types of applications.
Excel is a close contender. It's still the world's most popular programming language. It incorporates a zeroth order functional language (the spreadsheet).
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#15Code won't be written but generated
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
And JavaScript will be the most popular language, by far, for most types of applications.
Excel is a close contender. It's still the world's most popular programming language. It incorporates a zeroth order functional language (the spreadsheet).
We're talking about the future, not the past. Excel, while astonishingly popular today, has nowhere to go but down.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excel is a close contender. It's still the world's most popular programming language. It incorporates a zeroth order functional language (the spreadsheet).
We're talking about the future, not the past. Excel, while astonishingly popular today, has nowhere to go but down.
It's a long way down.
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#18I truly feel that 3D printers will change the way we live. Maybe not in the next 5-10 years though.
Re: Ask HN: What are the new ideas of the last 10 (or 5) years?
#19Mobile phones will be your primary communication device. Most software will eventually be accessed from a browser. People will pay $15 a month in perpetuity for a single video game. Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule. All of your routine transactions are automated. So are many of the non-routine ones, such as opening a new account for anything smaller than a mortgage -- and we'…
One thing that's not clear to me is whether mobile phones will also become the universal sensor. Or even whether we need something like that.
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#20Open source web browsers will be next development platform.
P2P networks will change the way of distribution of digital media.
Linux-based systems will dominate server market.
Linux become the supply of reusable software components for mobile devices.
Mobile carriers will dominate internet-access market.
OMG! I forgot facebook. Social networks as the second major place for a product placements (indirect advertisement) and brain-washing after TV.