November 2022
Beginner
720 pages
22h 8m
English
Content preview from Beginning Software Engineering, 2nd Edition
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21Future Trends
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke's Three Laws
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
—Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda
What You Will Learn in This Chapter:
- Areas that will be important in the future
- Areas that have yet to reach their full potential
- Some of the latest trends in software development and service provisioning
There are a couple of ways to predict the future. First, you can predict things that you wish would happen. The cartoon series The Jetsons (1962–1963) used that approach to correctly predict many technological marvels, including these:
- Video calls
- Robot vacuums
- Tablet computers
- Smart watches
- Drones
- Flat-screen televisions
- Space tourism
In that spirit, I'd like to predict the following:
- Large-scale teleportation
- Artificial gravity
- Instant neural training programs
- The Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- World peace (although that seems less likely than the others)
The more common method for predicting the future is to extrapolate based on past experience and knowledge of where things stand today. That approach has ...
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