Generative AI
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The ecosystem will be flooded by crypto/NFT refugees and startups looking for business models will raise absurd amounts of money while the rest of us wonder if the world turned stupid again.
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Generative AI will result in obnoxious chat-bots and customer-support SaaS that will make the entire process even more kafkaesque.
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Developers will be able to just
npm install
their way into ML without having to learn the fundamentals
Augmented Reality
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We will see A/R glasses from Apple, with privacy as a selling point.
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Zuckerberg will quietly and slowly drop the meta-verse and resume investing in Instagram as it fades away from cultural relevance.
Algorithms
- Algorithms will be the de-facto and ultimate judge of character. If Tiktok says you like water-polo, that means deep inside you like water-polo.
Musk
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Twitter will be assigned a ridiculous CEO and will start a 3 year dive out of media/culture relevance as Gen-Z don’t care for it.
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Tesla stock will continue to drop, as more established companies build better EVs more reliable and with better quality.
Social media
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Mastodon will be successful, but nothing like Twitter or Facebook. The intended lack of features and fragmentation will prevent it from being a network for viral content or events.
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TikTok will lose creators to YouTube, especially if they don’t fix their monetization and bots problems.
Software development
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React will continue to rule as the web platform at least for another few years, but the momentum will slow.
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Next.js will overshadow Remix, as the latter doesn’t offer enough competitive advantage to sway away users.
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SvelteKit will be the fastest growing framework but it will be mostly for smaller/hobby projects.
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Despite the initial hype, Rome tools, Deno & Bun will be quasi abandoned as the ecosystem outpaces their release cycle and the benefits don’t merit the headache of migration.
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Rust will leak in most software tooling and we will see attempts at a Django-like framework.