Ask HN: What emerging technology do you think is the most interesting and why?
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Theres a really interesting list of some on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
Head mounted displays (Oculus Rift, SteamVR, Hololens). I think a new market (at least for games) is finally emerging here.
I'm really enjoying developing software for wireless sensor networks. It's amazing how much you can do with 10KB of RAM (that's including RAM for the operating system too).
Just out of curiosity what types of projects are you working on?
My projects thus far has been purely academic. I built a middleware for data gathering applications that need best-effort anycasting to the nearest base station. The middleware runs on ContikiOS. At present it is still a prototype. I need to improve the resilience of sensor to base station communication for multi hop paths, make improvements to the route announcement protocol and respective timeout equations.
ngx/mod_pagespeed, because it implements best practices without interfering with developer workflow.
Also the QUIC protocol, gotta save round trips... Hope to see it more widely-implemented.
Also the QUIC protocol, gotta save round trips... Hope to see it more widely-implemented.
These are very neat. Thanks.
To put it simply: containers. Mostly because they are gaining a lot of traction and their use cases seem to be molding a whole new concept of our technology stacks.
pretty excited about digital manufacturing - I think instead of 3d printers in every home we'll be able to eg. Scan your foot, upload, and get a shoe that fits you exactly.