The Future of Computer Technology - Most People Have No Idea!
I was discussing this with a colleague today how so many jobs are going to change in the next five years and already are.
IT has been for a few years roughly half support, half development. Support are people who look after 'servers' and what runs on them, keep them running 99.9% of the time. Developers or programmers are teams of people who create applications that solve problems.
The Cloud
First big change is the cloud. Servers are no longer in a company's server room or datacenter. Now they are 'virtual' machines sitting in the cloud owned by big companies like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft.
Yes, that's right. Maybe you think Amazon sells DVDs and other products. Actually, they are far and away the biggest and best IT cloud provider on the planet. They almost 'own' the internet! Average man on the street doesn't realize this.
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Code In The Cloud
With platforms like AWS and Heroku and others, you can now code directly in the cloud. So now you don't need your own server, you don't even need to set up a server in the cloud. Instead, you have applications that run directly in the cloud. Now your company only needs developers. It doesn't need any support people anymore!
Coding Without Coding Skills
Why should you need to learn coding if you want to create? Years ago, people had to code in machine language, these days nobody does that anymore.
In the future, nobody will need to know how to write lines of a program. Instead, you'll construct it using drag and drop with your mouse.
Don't believe me? It's already happening. Check out bubble.is if you don't believe me.
I didn't even mention machine learning yet. Times really are a changing!
A lot of people dont realize that many jobs will completely done by robots or computers within the next 20 years, cars can drive themselves, soon this will be the same for trucks, bus drivers, etc. many things can be done on the internet, we have no need for malls, especially when everything can be purchased online. its going to be crazy times in the next few decades
I guess if you're an optimist you could say this will lead to an age of luxury where machines do all the hard work and people can spend more time doing what they love ... or if you're a pessimists this could lead to a time when the majority of people are no longer needed and disposed of by the powers that be.
Yes generally I'm an optimist. My only fear is that there is not much time to adapt. I actually work in IT but I realize that I must now train for a job that may not even exist yet!
Indeed and a lot of this is happening even now. There are mines for example where the trucks have been driving themselves for years. Also centers are already laying people off thanks to advances in machine learning.