You ain't seen nothing yet
Dr. Neil Roodyn
Building future tech. The world is what we make it. Future generations are relying on us.
In the last few weeks I have seen a number of posts indicating how the world is going to radically change in the coming two decades. Such as this in Business Insider 'The Next 20 Years Are Going To Make The Last 20 Look Like We Accomplished Nothing In Tech'
The truth is that they are mostly wrong, they are wrong because they are perceiving the world in terms of what they know today and the changes they see happening now. to get a bit closer some people are writing about things that are likely (or sure) to happen such as 'These are 10 coolest technologies yet to happen'
But first because this is about the future we need a picture of a DeLorean DMC-12
If in 20 years we are still using technology invented 20 years ago, like HTML and webpages, it will be no change at all. Real progress will happen through leaps of innovation and technology that changes the way we perceive the world.
The super talented Helen Papagiannis provides some insight into how this world might look in her whimsical entitled article 'How to Leave Your Laptop (at Starbucks) While You Pee: Invoked Computing'
This change is going to happen faster than many of us are ready to believe because finally companies with large development teams have worked out how to be delivering faster in a more Agile manner. In this article 'How Apple and Google ruined software development for the rest of us' the objective is to position the pace of change as a problem. It is not a problem, it is the solution. My view in the tech industry is 'keep up or get out'. Technology is about change. The primary purpose of being in technology is to bring about change, people that do not like change need to move aside and try another career.
My expectation is the pace of change will increase, not decrease. The passion being shown for products by all the tech companies that are succeeding is driving that change. These are groups of people that are making new exciting ways for us to engage and collaborate because they love it. That type of passion doesn't have 'work hours', it has end results.
What is the future you are building for the rest of us?
Director at Ascension-TG
10yNot meaning to be glib, but in 20 years will be worried about being i under the rule of technology, much as was protrayed in the Terminator 1 movie.. Let's not lose our humanity and creativity from, the young.
To quote Bill Gates. "Mankind constantly overestimates what they can achieve in 2 years. And dramatically underestimates what it will do in 10"
Cloud Architect, Solution Builder, Tech Innovator, Advisor
10yNot only is the pace of technical change interesting, the pace of technology's impact on society is quite intriguing because I think our technology is getting ahead of our morality. For example, just because everyone CAN own a drone or a laser or Glass or infrared goggles doesn't mean they SHOULD, in the same way that some people can responsibly own a gun or a pit bull and others cannot. And if the people who code and test self-driving cars are not as serious and focused as airline pilots, the Blue Screen of Death in the cars they create will, quite literally, cause deaths. So we have interesting times ahead as we weave technology into or culture and our mores.
Mental Health Advocate & Speaker - Marketer For Good - Purpose & Start-Up Coach - Founder of Xstatic Sunsets
10yHaving seen the speed of innovation and product development continue to accelerate over my years at Google I am left wondering what sort of lives we will be living in 10 years time. One thing for sure is consumers and decision makers will continue to be more empowered by new technology. The importance of customer experience and convenience will never change - so its how business can harness new technology to deliver this will be the differentiator.