LookingAhead

Created Monday 17 April 2023

Where is tech going from here?


Self-hosting


Linux "won," but now what?

Big OLD Idea


A small, cheap Linux box with a hard drive

that you keep at your house, connected to the

internet.

Big OLD Idea

Aka . . . Freedom instead of slavery.


Freedombox and Self-Hosting


Today,

Tomorrow?

Who owns your data?


But


Linux didn't have to DOMINATE to "win"

And I hate to admit it


But maybe EVERYONE isn't into this?

BUT BUT


Maybe it's not that YOU have to do it..

But you should know SOMEONE who does?

(as in, do you know a car girl/guy?


Web Publishing


Does this get more fragmented?

I'm not seeing centralization;

perhaps e.g. Wordpress comes back

Web Publishing


The tech:

Basic Web Stack, LAMP
Node/NPM
More "managed" services
"Serverless?"

Web As OS

More applications to the web
Same tech as above?
Fewer "apps?" (I think so, actually)

Cryptocurrency?

"Bear" Market now, but

IMHO, probably still a big deal.

There will likely be another upswing;
and perhaps a more mature thing happens

(I have opinions and money in this, not sure if you want either?)

Cybersecurity?


It's still a HUGE mess.

Can't understate this.

Social Media?


I think we're in for a reckoning here.

I *hope* Mastodon and the Fediverse is part of it.

AI


For sure.

What's interesting is that it's WILDLY FRAGMENTED now.


AI


Techwise, if so?

Python may absolutely gobble Javascripts lunch.

see e.g. Jupyter Notebooks.