Ask HN: what's the next booming industry or technology field?

This sounds terrible, but when industries really boom (in the US at least), it's largely because I-bankers have figured out how to chop up and sell unprofitable businesses to people at home watching CNBC.

See, for instance, internet entrepreneurship, 1997-2001, construction, 2005-2008.

That being said, I say Green/Energy.

Energy

Green/Eco

Mobile/Location

Combine all three and you've probably got a hit on your hands...

Mmm combining this. Something that generates green energy at home or any other location.

http://www.greenpacks.org/2010/07/19/green-battery-shake-it-...

Just two random thoughts.

* Data mining, data analysis, predictive analysis, etc. applied to absolutely everything.

* Health care management and all of the related sciences/technologies.

Bioinformatics Synthetic Biology Genomics

If you're got a a good handle of biology, statistics, and computer science you should be set.