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

8 points by roschdal ↗ HN
What will the next booming industry or technology field be? I'm looking for a new area where technology can solve real problems for people, and which will require problem-solving skills. Where do you think great innovation will happen in the next few years?

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trev0r
Bioinformatics Synthetic Biology Genomics

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

jshotwell
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.

[dead] stiggz
Government data... you have no idea how much useful data is just sitting around in municipal, state, and federal governments.. they've done all the legwork, so: data mining. big time.
mattgratt
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.