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Ask HN: What will be the tech trends in 2019?

15 points by shubidubi 8y ago

AI? AR/VR? Autonomous cars? Crypto? What is your prediction?

brad0 8y ago
I think another recession will start next year. Lots more tech IPOs before that happens I expect. We will see a lot more investment in autonomous delivery. This means smaller scale vehicles that can fit in the bike lane delivering groceries, last-mile Amazon/Walmart packages etc.
- tabtab 8y ago
  Vandals love targeting street-bots. Maybe if enough of them are around, then the vandals will either grow bored, or the incidents will be overshadowed by the shear delivery volume.
mortivore 8y ago
I think crypto is dead, and not coming back. I also think ML will continue to be a big thing, and a lot of startups will center around that. I don't think VR will make it big until the next generation of consoles. I don't think people really care about AR at all. The IoT space will continue to grow, and take over more and more things. I think autonomous delivery systems will be combined with food delivery services. Wish: Really hoping flying drone delivery, but don't foresee that for a while. If Amazon can figure out a good way for a robot to pick out food, then you could literally order the food on your phone, it can be picked out from a warehouse/grocery, picked up by a flying drone, and delivered directly to your house or wherever you currently are. I really want this service.
- dabockster 8y ago
  > Crypto is dead Agreed. I think 2019 will be the giant finale. Think tons of scandals, SEC shenanigans, and one big nail in the coffin to finish it all off (probably will be something related to how China has over 51% of the mining compute power).
schwinn 8y ago
5G and with it, new use cases like self-driving cars and IoT becoming a reality. While it won't immediately be available in all markets, ATT's announcement last week was a big step forward. I believe this time next year many of us will be talking about developing new applications that take advantage of 5G.
- countryqt30 8y ago
  AT&T announced 5G, but is actually using 2G to 4G under the hood. It's a perception thing they fake.
- brad0 8y ago
  I am excited to see the uptake of 5G next year. As far as I understand it’s going to be a price similar to our current 4G plans. I would love to see a network that is much slower (maybe 2G speeds) that is ultra cheap to use. IoT and other low bandwidth systems could use this. Hell, even a free system based on mesh networking would be really cool!
k4ch0w 8y ago
AI, specifically GAN's I expect to see more cool use cases. Typescript will be more heavily adopted. I am seeing more startups using GCP over AWS, it'll be interesting to see if this continues. I do a lot of due diligence and is purely speculation on personal experience. Kubernetes in use for development using minikubes on individual developer machines. Privacy concerns by the general public and what happens with their data. I don't expect an uproar in 2019, but I think people are realizing how much is collected on them. I share the sentiment that a recession is mounting, no one can time the markets though. Ideas that make me lean that way are ridiculous valuations on non profitable businesses, Corp Tax cuts are ending, uncertainty in what China is doing, rise of gig economy with a decrease in steady income and fresh grads with a unwanted degree and high student debt loans. We may be at the later stage of a debt cycle too according to Ray's book. Check out https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/.
- amunategui 8y ago
  Can't agree more with your GCP vs AWS mention. I have deployed my share of models on both platforms and GCP, with Cloud ML is much much easier esp. with Tensorflow. That said, hoping that 2019 makes it even easier as its still too complex for my taste.

15 points by shubidubi 8y ago

AI? AR/VR? Autonomous cars? Crypto? What is your prediction?

I think another recession will start next year. Lots more tech IPOs before that happens I expect. We will see a lot more investment in autonomous delivery. This means smaller scale vehicles that can fit in the bike lane delivering groceries, last-mile Amazon/Walmart packages etc.

tabtab 8y ago
Vandals love targeting street-bots. Maybe if enough of them are around, then the vandals will either grow bored, or the incidents will be overshadowed by the shear delivery volume.

mortivore 8y ago

I think crypto is dead, and not coming back. I also think ML will continue to be a big thing, and a lot of startups will center around that. I don't think VR will make it big until the next generation of consoles. I don't think people really care about AR at all. The IoT space will continue to grow, and take over more and more things. I think autonomous delivery systems will be combined with food delivery services. Wish: Really hoping flying drone delivery, but don't foresee that for a while. If Amazon can figure out a good way for a robot to pick out food, then you could literally order the food on your phone, it can be picked out from a warehouse/grocery, picked up by a flying drone, and delivered directly to your house or wherever you currently are. I really want this service.

dabockster 8y ago
> Crypto is dead Agreed. I think 2019 will be the giant finale. Think tons of scandals, SEC shenanigans, and one big nail in the coffin to finish it all off (probably will be something related to how China has over 51% of the mining compute power).

schwinn 8y ago

5G and with it, new use cases like self-driving cars and IoT becoming a reality. While it won't immediately be available in all markets, ATT's announcement last week was a big step forward. I believe this time next year many of us will be talking about developing new applications that take advantage of 5G.

countryqt30 8y ago
AT&T announced 5G, but is actually using 2G to 4G under the hood. It's a perception thing they fake.
brad0 8y ago
I am excited to see the uptake of 5G next year. As far as I understand it’s going to be a price similar to our current 4G plans. I would love to see a network that is much slower (maybe 2G speeds) that is ultra cheap to use. IoT and other low bandwidth systems could use this. Hell, even a free system based on mesh networking would be really cool!

k4ch0w 8y ago

AI, specifically GAN's I expect to see more cool use cases. Typescript will be more heavily adopted. I am seeing more startups using GCP over AWS, it'll be interesting to see if this continues. I do a lot of due diligence and is purely speculation on personal experience. Kubernetes in use for development using minikubes on individual developer machines. Privacy concerns by the general public and what happens with their data. I don't expect an uproar in 2019, but I think people are realizing how much is collected on them. I share the sentiment that a recession is mounting, no one can time the markets though. Ideas that make me lean that way are ridiculous valuations on non profitable businesses, Corp Tax cuts are ending, uncertainty in what China is doing, rise of gig economy with a decrease in steady income and fresh grads with a unwanted degree and high student debt loans. We may be at the later stage of a debt cycle too according to Ray's book. Check out https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/.

amunategui 8y ago
Can't agree more with your GCP vs AWS mention. I have deployed my share of models on both platforms and GCP, with Cloud ML is much much easier esp. with Tensorflow. That said, hoping that 2019 makes it even easier as its still too complex for my taste.