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Ask HN: What do you think the world looks like in 10 years?

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What are your predictions for what the world looks like in 10 years?

What kind of technology will be commonplace and how will everyday life be different?

When I think back ten years one small example is the iPhone, and by extension smartphones.

They are now such a big part of our lives and have enabled the creation of many billion dollar industries and companies.

What does your crystal ball show?

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max0563
I see VR and AR becoming much more commonplace.
Jack000
I think it'll remain a niche gaming device that enjoys a brief burst of popularity then decline to a low steady-state, sort of like the Wii.

I just don't see a lot of applications for it beyond occasional escapism. It's an interesting experience for sure but I don't think I even want all of my games to be VR. AR could be more useful but I have a feeling it's one of those things that look good in the movies but winds up being clunky to use in real life.

zer00eyz
I suspect that micro and niche manufacturing is going to be a thing. If you have a high value product that you can sell a few hundred of a year, then you might be able to have a sustainable business for your self out of your garage.

There are already folks doing this for small markets, especially for high quality goods. Jeans, knives, various EDC items, wallets... these markets are only going to grow.

ohgh1ieD
See the AI hype? this is going to happen to gene editing and biology.

I think that lots of dev's are already interested in the human genom, biochemistry and life science but it's somehow too far away, it's not predicable enough for us, that's because we (humans) haven't understood it yet.

But there will be a time were all those topics will be more predicable for us developers, we will gain more interest in biological programming ?

There will be coursera/pluralsight courses about 'Extract your own DNA and make it blink' courses.

Biology is going to be programmable like a microcontroller. We will order Do it yourself kits like Arduinos and Pi's from Amazon.

Edit:

And that's something I'd really love to see, there is so much potential once real hackers try to solve problems in biology, if we take a closer look at the open source community and how many amazing things they (we) have created, all that awesomeness could also become true for biology.

A few links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself_biology

EJTH
It really depends much on how the battery / fuelcell tech will develop over the next years.

If we get good improvements in capacity on batteries you can expect personal electric aerial vehicles to become commonplace (drones / n-copters for personal transport)