Post on 08-May-2015
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Developing in a DecadeA Glance into the Future
How/What will we be developing in 2024?
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Google Trends
Google Trends
-Johnny Appleseed
The Next Big Thing (TM)
What new language?
What new paradigm?
What new framework?
And Process?
It doesn’t matter
Don’t restrict yourself
Constantly be learning
Your cheese will move
but there’s plenty more around
The means will change
We will adapt
But will our goals change?
Have our goals changed?
Why do we do what we do?
Why?
Technology & Software is helping people
AutomationIncreasing Productivity
Technology and Jobs
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) and Andrew McAffee
Technology and Jobs
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) and Andrew McAffee
This is not your mother’s
Industrial Revolution
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) and Andrew McAffee
This is not your mother’s
Industrial Revolution
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) and Andrew McAffee
InformationThe Key to Freedom
There’s a lot of information
Big Dataa.k.a. The Next Big Thinga.k.a. The Next Big Thing (TM)
What can we do with this Data?
How can we do it?
Why should we do it?
It’s information. Information is knowledge.
Is too much information a bad thing?
Orwell’s Society
Big Brother!
Control!
Censorship
Huxley’s Society
Controlled Population!
Amusement!
Artificial Procreation
Amusing ourselves to
DeathRelevance lost in a sea of
irrelevance
-Neil Postman, Amusing ourselves to death
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book,
for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those
who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be
concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive
culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy,
and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. …..!
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.!
!
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
We are inundated with information. Things become
insignificant quickly.
29 Stages of a Twitter (Shit) Storm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-29-stages-of-a-twitterstorm
1. Someone does something bad
2. Someone notices it
4. Gradually anger builds
6. …and builds
8. Famous Twitter Account notices
9. People send angry messages…to wrong account
10. Someone starts a petition
12. Lots of petitions. No one knows which one to sign
15. Issue trends
16. Media covers it
18. Politicians get on board
22. Story dominates media
23. Social Media “Experts” have a field day
24. Someone apologises
25. Most people kind of accept it. Issue dies down.
27. Someone invents some hashtag game
29. Next day, something else happens.
The relevant becomes irrelevant
What type of society are we aiming for?
And then there’s us: Developers
As Developers, we play a role in changing the world
Start-upsChanging the World
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3.
4.
WHY?
Success!
and if you want to be successful, you need to be in
the Valley
Silicon Valley
Longer to Raise Money!
Decreases Odds of Being Bought Out!
Decreases Odds of Success
Outside the Valley…
What is success?
The Jungle
Homes that cost $3.3 Million !
Homes costing $700K surrounded by tents of the Jungle!
Jungle: 175 homeless at any time
What happened to the whole “Changing the World”?
40 Million Americans on Food Stamps
Are our goals changing?
Why?
Innovation, Success, Improving Society for all !!
are not incompatible goals
Changing the World != Helping it
-Johnny Appleseed
We need to acknowledge there is a problem
-Johnny Appleseed
As Developers, as an Industry, we have the potential to create a better society
-Johnny Appleseed
We should look to the future and ask Why, not What, or How
-Johnny Appleseed
Software Development, Technology isn’t the goal.
pic of drop what you’re doing.
pic of children learning
Paraphrased conversation between Attenborough and Goldblum - Jurassic Park
“We were so busy seeing if we could, that we didn’t stop to think if we should”
-Johnny Appleseed
Thank you
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