by desertraven on 12/13/23, 8:27 AM with 6 comments
My biggest concern is that as the bar for discovering technology gets higher, it may get withheld from the public. Feel free to share your concerns too.
by mikewarot on 12/13/23, 8:53 PM
Thanks to advances in technique, ground loop based heat pump systems will find their way into use in most new buildings. This will allow for the use of solar and other renewable power on a far wider scale, making the grid a welcome way to share power when needed, instead of a unidirectional network.
Parallel processing will find its way down to the bit level. Instead of fixed width architectures, you'll be able to scale the precision of a calculation as much as is needed, allowing the most efficient use of silicon (or its replacement)
Quantum computing will be an interesting research area.
Thanks to ubiquitous internet, computer hardware, software, and advances in both additive and subtractive manufacturing, it'll be possible to build almost anything in the home, provided the elements to do so (or acceptable substitutes) are on hand. It will be well within the capability of an enthusiast to build machines that can make more of themselves. It's the first 3d printer, taken to the limit.
Either we'll all enjoy secure general purpose computing, thanks to the capability object model form the 1970s... or we'll still be complaining about hacking incidents (unless laws prevent doing so)
I hope you all are having fun in that future.
by dave4420 on 12/13/23, 9:03 AM
I’ll make some narrow predictions about programming languages:
- something like terraform will be integrated into most languages
- you’ll be able to switch your web api from being hosted on AWS Lambda / k8s / Cloudflare Workers / etc to a different platform just by rebuilding and redeploying, just like cross-compiling is trivial with Go today
- there will still be an awful lot of of C and COBOL hanging around
by sim7c00 on 12/13/23, 7:59 PM
by iamflimflam1 on 12/16/23, 8:40 PM
by pestatije on 12/13/23, 10:27 AM
- Cern dismisses the probability of a singularity event in one of its experiments
- the nuke tech gets so widespread and cheap it ends in the hands of non-government orgs
- robots decide they dont like being switched off and so act in consequence
by solardev on 12/14/23, 5:20 PM