The Next Five Years

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The Next Five Years

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October 4, 2014 at 11:23 am

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 1

To be honest and despite the best intentions of people doing such things, I'm afraid... very afraid.

Look at what went on just this last year. How many companies data was broken into because of (frankly) stupid mistakes? But, even those incidents, as major as they were, will pale in comparison to the damage that people that have legal access to "the data" could do.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 2

As someone who predicted that dance music was a fad, tatoos and piercings would never get majority acceptance, Jesse Jackson was a mad ideologists thinking that the USA would have a black president in my lifetime, and the list goes on, I feel that I am eminently qualified to offer prediction in order to offer a balanced argument (i.e. everyone else has a chance of being right!!!) There were others: xUML becoming common place, 3GLs becoming rare and only used to create components for 4GL business developers etc.

SQL Server? The only thing that I will predict, probably incorrectly, is that the next version will be Microsoft SQL Server 2016.

My main current outstanding prediction is that the EU will crumble under infighting by 2050.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

Robert Sterbal-482516 SSCrazy Points: 2874 More actions · Answer 3

My prediction is that I still won't be able to delete my data from the people who should be required to delete it on request. I'll accept that the markets for insurance and government enforcement of the law will require that I not be able to delete their data, but in general people collecting information about me will not have to remove it from their data stores.

chrisn-585491 SSCoach Points: 16006 More actions · Answer 4

I think the next five years of any technical progress will be overshadowed by economic and political issues. And those issues are too depressing to consider on a Monday... :unsure:

But as technologists, we really need to look at security issues. USB is totally insecure, most email is unsigned and unencrypted, and our mobile devices are totally compromised.

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22999 More actions · Answer 5

My main current outstanding prediction is that the EU will crumble under infighting by 2050

You give it that long do you Gaz? I'm thinking at least 20 years sooner than that. I think it will take one major nation deciding to leave and the dominoes will start to fall.

Techwise, about the only thing I'll confidently predict is the gap between what I know and what I want to know will be just as wide as it is now but I'll be much further down the line of what I know.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 6

BWFC (10/6/2014)
My main current outstanding prediction is that the EU will crumble under infighting by 2050
You give it that long do you Gaz? I'm thinking at least 20 years sooner than that. I think it will take one major nation deciding to leave and the dominoes will start to fall.
Techwise, about the only thing I'll confidently predict is the gap between what I know and what I want to know will be just as wide as it is now but I'll be much further down the line of what I know.

Be fair!!! I made that predication to my Mom one breakfast circa 1985 (I would have been 14/15). 😉

There appears to be only one large union of states which I think works together. In my opinion this is due to the vast amount of land and resources, the low density of population, shared language (although that is changing) and the relative wealth compared to other nations.

Others' external perceptions are of a controlling media, brainwash style national allegiance and a bizarre "our country can do no wrong" sentiment that could have their effects too. My opinion of those? There are elements of these most places worldwide.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

Eric M Russell SSC Guru Points: 125561 More actions · Answer 7

Azure first gave us the ability to create a database, as opposed to just a key value store.

Steve, perhaps you meant to say: "Azure first gave us (SQL Server) the ability to create a key value store, as opposed to just a relational database". Azure Table Storage, the new storage model, is more like a key value store; versus the SQL Server relational database running on Azure.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309178.aspx

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

chrisn-585491 SSCoach Points: 16006 More actions · Answer 8

There appears to be only one large union of states which I think works together. In my opinion this is due to the vast amount of land and resources, the low density of population, shared language (although that is changing) and the relative wealth compared to other nations.

Norway?

Tom_Sacramento SSCertifiable Points: 6296 More actions · Answer 9

5 years from now...

When I started in this business 35 years ago life was punch-card FORTRAN and Assembler code. I am absolutely amazed at where we are now, and have no doubt that we will continue to progress in potential. In my early days, databases were DBase II and r:Base 4000, and Lotus Symphony, Wordstar and VisiCalc were cool, MultiMate, Supercalc and Displaywrite vying for affection. Who can forget Borland Turbo Pascal/C/Macro and QuatroPro and Sprint.

Look at what we have now with crazy powerful frameworks for Java and Dot Net, databases like SQL Server and Oracle, and the free-range offerings from Hadoop and others. For all this progress we do seem to be dialectically solving many of the same old problems.

And yet in 5 years all this shiny stuff will seem 'primitive' and pedestrian and we may be asked how or why we did things with 'that' technology.

One thing is for sure - we need to always be forward-thinking, connected and aware, and always willing to learn and grow, and willing share this knowlege. Hang on tight - it only gets better/faster and more exciting from here!

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Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 10

chrisn-585491 (10/6/2014)
There appears to be only one large union of states which I think works together. In my opinion this is due to the vast amount of land and resources, the low density of population, shared language (although that is changing) and the relative wealth compared to other nations.
Norway?

Nice try Chris.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

Kick6Tiger SSCrazy Points: 2380 More actions · Answer 11

I predict that my phone will have more space than my development server at work. If space is so cheap, why can't I ever seem to be able to get more than 1 TB of space on any server I work with? The hardware guys always want to charge me 10s of thousands of $$$ to upgrade their SAN for a couple of TB.

Aigle de Guerre!

Miles Neale SSChampion Points: 13147 More actions · Answer 12

Technology will save the world! Give us five more years and well will heal the world, we will diagnose illness before it happens and heal the masses by pre-injection of things that we think they need.

There will be no need for school. We will alter the DNA prebirth so that no one is born without the initial abilities of Albert E. and who knows where they will go. Imagine a world without limits!!!

Computer security will not matter and passwords will not be needed for all the data there is about you will be compromised by identity theives or given away by the governments.

And governments will monitor your every action, purchase, and word said. They also will medically determine that you are not right and inject you with things that make it such that you cannot drink, smoke, eat junk food, or do other things that might drive up the cost of healthcare and insurance for everyone. Remember, we are your friend and we are going to make it better for everyone.

And all along the sale of black helicopters will skyrocket.

Lastly, if you do not see this as an attempt at humor, you need to move off the compound in Norther Idaho and get a real life.

🙂

Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 13

Whatever day Miles Neale had, I had the opposite. I hope you all joined Miles on the happy side of the road today!!! I will do my upmost to join you lot tomorrow.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 14

I'm fairly confident that in five years I will be retired.