As we hit physical limits of what we can power and cool, I expect software will have to be more aware of those limits. Heterogeneous computing is going to be t

As we hit physical limits of what we can power and cool, I expect software will have to be more aware of those limits. Heterogeneous computing is going to be the norm in everything. Since we’ve trained a generation of programmers to be hardware unaware, there is going to be increasing need for people who can understand all the concepts of how to tie all these different devices together to keep this huge group of people productive. I would also lump network devices into this category as the trend to disaggregate accelerates and lower latency access protocols/methods are needed. Embedded SW is going to be more important as devices get more powerful. If we are truly to see AR devices I think this is definitely the case. The difference between FW/SW will continue to blur. Will also need people who understand HW to best optimize for power consumption. Power consumption aware computing and profiling. As we hit physical limits of power density in data centers, we will need good ways to profile power consumption of code and power based optimization of code. This is obviously a thing already in mobile devices. But expect power aware computing to become more and more prevalent everywhere over time.