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This topic has been ripped directly from Lambda the Ultimate's What will programming look like in 2020? post. They are having a lively discussion and if you are interested in flexing your holiday thought muscles we might have a good discussion too.
Eight years is a difficult prediction horizon. It's too short to simply project out current trends and it's too long to discount potential technological breakthroughs coming to market. There's the challenge.
Some of my lousy predictions:
- Programmers Will Form Guilds Around New Gamified Training Hubs
- The Web Will Become More Closed Before it Becomes More Open
- Not Everyone Will Become a Programmer
- Focus Will Shift to Creating Bigger People Instead of Chasing Big Ideas
Programmers Will Form Guilds Around New Gamified Training Hubs