The Next Decade of Software Development - Richard Campbell - NDC Sydney 2022

How will software development evolve in the 2020s? Join Richard Campbell as he explores the landscape of technology that will have a massive impact on software development over the next ten years.
What new devices are coming? Will Artificial Intelligence take over everything? How will people connect to the web in the next ten years? And what about Quantum Computing? All these topics and more will shape our future!
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[@deeteenw]

I'm not on board with the augmented reality trend unless we get some technological breakthroughs which I'm not seeing yet:
- You need a ton of processing power which is (and will be, as you pointed out, because Moores Law is coming to an end) limited by battery size - unless you get much better batteries in terms of power to weight. Not really on the horizon yet, money currently goes to cheaper batteries for large storage sizes (cars/grid).
- If you try to push the processing power to the cloud, you can do that, but now you need tons of bandwidth over the air to process image data, one of the other fundamental limitations you pointed out, especially if, say, 10.000 people in a stadium try to use that feature all at once to get augmented data for their football game. Maybe solvable in this case through a common broadcast, but you get the idea.

[@brynyard]

There's plenty of actual solutions for for write-once-run-anywhere - the problem is political/economical:
* Is it _our_ solution?
* Can we please have lock-in?
* How do we monetize this?
* Does it give our platforms an advantage?
* Does it undermine one of our other cash-cows?
* etc...