My predictions, not as grand as some others, but anyways!
Software Engineering / Startups:
- FAANG will be continue to provide the best monetary compensation, that no startup can beat. However, there will be a few startups that will figure out something to attract the best-of-the-best. Similar to how Google figured out how to do it in the early 2000s. I thought maybe something bitcoin would have been it, in 2010s, but I don't think that's come to pass yet. These companies will become HUGE, bigger than Google by 2040.
- UI development in the browser and browser based technologies will be dominated by one framework, and we will stop seeing new frameworks every other month. Think Qt but with web technologies. Performance afforded by native applications will still not be a priority for all but the biggest apps.
- Java will continue to be dominant in terms of market share, and JVM will be continue to be huge on the server side. In fact, Java will supersede Scala and Kotlin in terms of the most important features. As in it will have the best parts of both the languages, but designed better.
- There will be huge progress in developer tooling for machine learning. Just as how you can do `npm install`, run docker containers, and virtual machines very well, without knowing anything about how it works, you will be able to train and use "good enough" models without knowing how machine learning works. AutoML is just the start, I'm thinking the stereotypical 17 year old hacker who gets into JavaScript today as their first technology, will instead be getting into Machine Learning based stuff by 2030. Recruiters will be surprised if you've not been exposed to it in the past year, regardless of your background.
- People will continue complaining about agile, product management etc. :)
Stuff I have no idea about, but here it goes:
- The current world is fairly divided and fragile and changing. It's been a long time (> 75 years) since there has been a big crisis. By the beginning of 2030, we will start to see the sparks of another crisis. It may either be the biggest global recession ever, or something worse.
India related:
- The government in power will continue to be nationalist through this decade (though not necessarily the current party / leaders), however more secular than it is right now.
- There will be at least one startup from India whose product will be used widely around the world.
- There will be economic and infrastructural gains, but by the end of the decade, it will still feel meh.
- At least one place in India will get hit very, very hard by something caused due to climate change.
Software Engineering / Startups:
- FAANG will be continue to provide the best monetary compensation, that no startup can beat. However, there will be a few startups that will figure out something to attract the best-of-the-best. Similar to how Google figured out how to do it in the early 2000s. I thought maybe something bitcoin would have been it, in 2010s, but I don't think that's come to pass yet. These companies will become HUGE, bigger than Google by 2040.
- UI development in the browser and browser based technologies will be dominated by one framework, and we will stop seeing new frameworks every other month. Think Qt but with web technologies. Performance afforded by native applications will still not be a priority for all but the biggest apps.
- Java will continue to be dominant in terms of market share, and JVM will be continue to be huge on the server side. In fact, Java will supersede Scala and Kotlin in terms of the most important features. As in it will have the best parts of both the languages, but designed better.
- There will be huge progress in developer tooling for machine learning. Just as how you can do `npm install`, run docker containers, and virtual machines very well, without knowing anything about how it works, you will be able to train and use "good enough" models without knowing how machine learning works. AutoML is just the start, I'm thinking the stereotypical 17 year old hacker who gets into JavaScript today as their first technology, will instead be getting into Machine Learning based stuff by 2030. Recruiters will be surprised if you've not been exposed to it in the past year, regardless of your background.
- People will continue complaining about agile, product management etc. :)
Stuff I have no idea about, but here it goes:
- The current world is fairly divided and fragile and changing. It's been a long time (> 75 years) since there has been a big crisis. By the beginning of 2030, we will start to see the sparks of another crisis. It may either be the biggest global recession ever, or something worse.
India related:
- The government in power will continue to be nationalist through this decade (though not necessarily the current party / leaders), however more secular than it is right now.
- There will be at least one startup from India whose product will be used widely around the world.
- There will be economic and infrastructural gains, but by the end of the decade, it will still feel meh.
- At least one place in India will get hit very, very hard by something caused due to climate change.