Ask HN: What's the next big challenge in software?

4 points·rafiki6··4 comments

I think we are reaching a maturity stage where we are hitting the limitations of the current wave of "AI". The hype is dying down and reality is setting in that we aren't anywhere near building the singularity. Blockchain and crypto is also facing reality and stabilizing and starting to face real scrutiny over it's utility. What do you think the next big trend will be for the upcoming decade?

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A few guesses..

- Ambient/ubiquitous computing, as the other comment pointed out

- Ambient/ubiquitous surveillance, and a counter movement to fight for privacy, personal security, decentralization

- VR/AR improve and spread further to everyday domains

- Financial and public/gov't services via software

- Education via software

- Software for developing software, maybe more heavily toward visual interfaces for people who are not programmers

Same as it's been for the last two (at least): everything is an embedded system. Every physical object has (or soon will have) a computer chip in it.

(Yes, "every" is an exaggeration. But that's the direction of the trend.)

Regulation.

There's so many stories of data and financial overreach that I expect much regulation on the horizon. Much of it as well thought out as Australia's backdooring of encryption.

there will be a big push for quantum but i dont see it actually taking off too soon, that may be more one for 2030. for now im not too sure aside from whats been said already

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