The next big thing won't be the next big thing until it is obviously was the next big thing. It may be more productive to focus on a problem and see how far yo

The next big thing won't be the next big thing until it is obviously was the next big thing. It may be more productive to focus on a problem and see how far you could make progress on it. If you make enough progress, it becomes the next big thing. For example, I've been dreaming about speeding up software development. There are a lot of pieces of that puzzle across tools, project management, training, etc. I think about it a lot and over time through my career I want to explore all sorts of ways to go faster and faster. Years from now, I'm sure software developers will say how slow things used to be just like we surely can make comparisons to the past of punch card computing and manual memory management. In terms of watching the future unfold as a spectator, perhaps self-driving cars or 3-D printers are the next big thing.