Slides from Hadi Hariri talk @Codemotion Roma 2014

1. Developing in a Decade
A Glance into the Future

2. How/What will we be developing in
2024?

6. More

7. Google Trends

8. Google Trends

9. -Johnny Appleseed
The Next Big Thing (TM)

10. What new language?

11. What new paradigm?

12. What new framework?

13. And Process?

14. It doesn’t
matter

15. Don’t restrict
yourself

16. Constantly be learning

18. Your cheese
will move
but there’s plenty more around

19. The means will change

20. We will adapt

21. But will our goals
change?

22. Have our goals
changed?

23. Why do we do what we
do?

24. Why?

27. Technology & Software
is helping people

32. Automation
Increasing Productivity

39. Technology
and Jobs
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT)
and Andrew McAffee

40. Technology
and Jobs
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT)
and Andrew McAffee

41. This is not your
mother’s
Industrial
Revolution
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT)
and Andrew McAffee

42. This is not your
mother’s
Industrial
Revolution
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT)
and Andrew McAffee

44. Information
The Key to Freedom

47. There’s a lot of information

48. Big Data
a.k.a. The Next Big Thinga.k.a. The Next Big Thing (TM)

49. What can we do with
this Data?

51. How can we do it?

54. Why should we do it?

55. It’s information.
Information is knowledge.

56. Is too much information a
bad thing?

57. Orwell’s Society
Big Brother!
Control!
Censorship

58. Huxley’s Society
Controlled Population!
Amusement!
Artificial Procreation

59. Amusing
ourselves to
Death
Relevance lost in a sea of
irrelevance

60. -Neil Postman, Amusing ourselves to death
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What
Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book,
for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared
those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those
who would give us so much that we would be reduced to
passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be
concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in
a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive
culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture,
preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy,
and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. …..!
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
feared that what we love will ruin us.!
!
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was
right.”

65. We are inundated with
information. Things become
insignificant quickly.

66. 29 Stages of a Twitter (Shit) Storm
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-29-stages-of-a-twitterstorm

67. 1. Someone does something bad

68. 2. Someone notices it

69. 4. Gradually anger builds

70. 6. …and builds

71. 8. Famous Twitter Account
notices

72. 9. People send angry
messages…to wrong account

73. 10. Someone starts a petition

74. 12. Lots of petitions. No one
knows which one to sign

75. 15. Issue trends

76. 16. Media covers it

77. 18. Politicians get on board

78. 22. Story dominates media

79. 23. Social Media “Experts” have
a field day

80. 24. Someone apologises

81. 25. Most people kind of accept
it. Issue dies down.

82. 27. Someone invents some
hashtag game

83. 29. Next day, something else
happens.

84. The relevant becomes
irrelevant

85. What type of society
are we aiming for?

86. And then there’s us:
Developers

87. As Developers, we play a
role in changing the world

88. Start-ups
Changing the World

89. 1.
2.
3.
4.

90. WHY?
Success!

91. and if you want to be
successful, you need to be in
the Valley

92. Silicon Valley
Longer to Raise Money!
Decreases Odds of Being
Bought Out!
Decreases Odds of
Success
Outside the Valley…

93. What is success?

94. The Jungle
Homes that cost $3.3
Million !
Homes costing $700K
surrounded by tents of
the Jungle!
Jungle: 175 homeless at
any time

95. What happened to the whole
“Changing the World”?

98. 40 Million Americans on Food Stamps

100. Are our goals
changing?

101. Why?

102. Innovation, Success, Improving Society for all
!
!
are not incompatible goals

117. Changing the World !=
Helping it

119. -Johnny Appleseed
We need to acknowledge there is a problem

120. -Johnny Appleseed
As Developers, as an Industry, we have the
potential to create a better society

121. -Johnny Appleseed
We should look to the future and ask Why,
not What, or How

122. -Johnny Appleseed
Software Development, Technology isn’t the
goal.

123. pic of drop what you’re
doing.
pic of children learning

124. Paraphrased conversation between Attenborough and
Goldblum - Jurassic Park
“We were so busy seeing if we could, that we
didn’t stop to think if we should”

125. -Johnny Appleseed
Thank you

126. Credits
Pictures
Crystal Ball - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkjason/612634561/
Textile Machine - http://www.flickr.com/photos/muriel_vd/984795979
Brain - http://pixabay.com/en/brain-human-brain-science-biology-43490/
Baby Crying - http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124370018
Pigeon Hole - http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/103405687/
Cheese - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladymissmarquise/5383384526
Puzzle - http://www.flickr.com/photos/intvgene/370973576
Helping Cart - http://www.flickr.com/photos/reddy-aprianto/8360515062/
Automation - http://www.flickr.com/photos/xmacex/3019001226/
Library - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/9883645136/
Barista - http://qz.com/134661/briggo-coffee-army-of-robot-baristas-could-mean-the-end-of-starbucks-as-we-know-it/
TV - http://www.flickr.com/photos/33718942@N07/5188238584
Huxley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huxley
Orwell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
Kids - http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/4006194802
Stop - http://www.flickr.com/photos/misteraitch/2971658475
Google Car - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google%27s_Lexus_RX_450h_Self-Driving_Car.jpg
Computers - http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/4152110208
Windows 8.1 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nabor_garrido/9519905048/
Food - Glenn’s Breakfast
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