Technology predictions and roadmap (to 2030)
Ive been gazing into my crystal ball, thinking about the future and trying to make some sense of whats happening in the techno world. The long and short of it is that I have come up with some technology and social predictions.
They are based on market analysis, trend extrapolation and good old fashioned intuition.
Some of these predictions are controversial (deliberately so), but times are changing and things happen fast.
- 2010 Microsoft give up on vista
- 2010 Ubuntu is home standard
- 2011 IT becomes all about mobile
- 2011 silverlight dies
- 2011 3d standardization
- 2011 Windows applications disappear
- 2012 Hacking event causes world turmoil
- 2012 Cloud replaces servers
- 2012 Diverse office computers is standard
- 2012 International security database
- 2012 Designers take over from developers
- 2012 Email becomes obsolete
- 2012 flexible screens on packaging
- 2012 low cost genetic sequencer
- 2012 MRI scanning in doctors surgery
- 2012 News papers will die out
- 2013 Online democratic systems
- 2013 AI services emerge
- 2013 removable media becomes obsolete
- 2013 Systems Integration de-skilled
- 2013 Television replaced by online
- 2013 Google not top search provider
- 2014 Media overtake computing companies
- 2014 VB script dies
- 2014 all software is either service or open source
- 2014 Virtual worlds used by business
- 2014 Apple becomes biggest content provider
- 2015 brain pace makers become common place
- 2015 Employees use their own computers
- 2015 flexible screens become standard
- 2015 getting lost is impossible
- 2015 Google is top enterprise software provider
- 2015 governments stop buying servers
- 2015 handheld genetic sequencer
- 2016 Human lands on mars
- 2016 implants into humans become common place
- 2016 IT services becomes about data meaning
- 2016 It will be possible to index video
- 2016 Linux becomes is standard OS
- 2017 Full scale cyber war
- 2017 opensource hardware
- 2017 programming is obsolete skill
- 2017 Relational databases are obsolete
- 2018 business delegated to AI services
- 2018 Imagination more valuable than skill
- 2018 The office becomes history
- 2018 Call center becomes the past
- 2019 Automomous robotic toys
- 2019 Printers disappear
- 2019 Mobile phone becomes history
- 2019 weather news mega important
- 2019 Semantic web services
- 2019 Opensource car
- 2020 Talking computers
- 2020 HUD is fashion item
- 2020 Petrol Engine abolished
- 2020 Tabacco smoking illegal
- 2020 riding a bicycle becomes the norm
- 2020 Office blocks repurposed
- 2021 Ubiquitious internet
- 2021 Intelligence in almost all devices
- 2022 global state controlled media
- 2022 the depression is over
- 2023 Paper outlawed
- 2023 All knowledge electronic
- 2023 Autonomous vehicles
- 2024 natural language programming
- 2024 English replaces all lanuages
- 2025 world covered by CCTV
- 2026 querty keyboard dies
- 2027 most work from home
- 2027 Writing not taught
- 2028 Astro Holidays
