What's next?

[TimberWolf]

What technologies are going to make today's skills redundant? Something related to mobile or cloud computing, web services, or further moves in to bolt-connecting or use of packages/templates rather than technical know-how of actually creating bolts. Or are some recent revolutions (e.g. OOP/OOA) pretty much it with not much scope for a major revolution. What about object oriented Db's?

 

[TimberWolf]

p.s. it will be regarded as cheating if you reply to this thread in 10 years time, interesting though it will be to hear from you.

 

[ThomasSoerensen]

learning-replicating-self-aware-neural-networks-living-in-the-sky

they will do all your work

DOOMED!!!

 

[RichardCranium]

p.s. it will be regarded as cheating if you reply to this thread in 10 years time, interesting though it will be to hear from you.

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[DimPrawn]

I couldn't care less.

As long as my gravy train lasts another few years.

 

[TimberWolf]

I couldn't care less.

As long as my gravy train lasts another few years.

Yeah, in just another few years you'll reach the end of the rainbow...

 

[DimPrawn]

Yeah, in just another few years you'll reach the end of the rainbow...

In a few years I'll be wealthy enough not to worry about it.

 

[TimberWolf]

In a few years I'll be wealthy enough not to worry about it.

Wealthy enough for what? To buy a bigger house, yacht or (smaller) wife?

 

[swamp]

Don't see too much on the horizon apart from more hype like ESBs and SOA and the link, most of which is about vendors making £££ (or $$$).

One thing I would like to see is a language with first class support for concurrency. It's a bit of an afterthought in Java and C#, and even a non-thought in other languages.

 

[RichardCranium]

One thing I would like to see is a language with first class support for concurrency.

You'll have to go back 25 years, I'm afraid, not forward 10. Real programming on real hardware with real operating systems started to die when the PC was born.

There's a fading ghost part of my brain that knows all about genuine multi-processor, multi-threaded programming and file systems that are designed for it.