Cloud was a very funny marketing buzzword that started with a real meaning and then devolved into "connects to the Internet." Cloud based things didn't even have to do anything with the Internet for marketing wonks to pretend like being connected to the cloud meant something. Great innovation folks just throw a wifi receiver in it and call it "The Cloud" we did it wow such innovation.
AI is rapidly descending into the same thing. There was a time when "AI" was being used to refer to actual machine learning algorithms that were good enough to fool the layperson into thinking they were smart. Nowadays the word AI just means "can compute something." Does it accept an input and make a decision on that input? Call it AI! My calculator is an AI! An ebook is AI enabled because it automatically changes the page based on how long I spent on the last page! My fridge has AI because it tells me when I accidentally left it open! Wow we just put extremely basic algorithms into everything and now it's AI! We did it we revolutionized technology forever!
Anyway now it's time for the prolific posters of Hexbear to flex your Nostradamus muscles. What's the next Big Dumb Tech Marketing Buzzword going to be and why? Lay it on us.
off-planet backups
negative latency networking
psychedelic nanobotsIt's gonna be "Edge" as people start to suffer cloud and subscription fatigue. When "services" revenue begins to flag, companies will try to get customers back on the hardware treadmill
(This is obviously just my wishful thinking)
I unironically think it'd be neat for there to be home servers designed to be as easy for normal, non-computer-toucher people as the current crop of cloud bullshit is.
Oh, it'll have all the downsides of the cloud, while also using up your space and your internet and your power
"Quantum" but while technically impressive it is in reality extremely limited.
Mods/enhancements: is going to start with just the neuralink bullshit but eventually if it has a strap for you to wrap around your bicep they will call it a mod
Maybe cloud gaming again. There have been attempts pretty recently, which is a ding against it, but it's a real business model that at least Microsoft is well-positioned for, and it fulfills the primary goal of being a justification for building data centers and filling them with GPUs.
I'm not very good at predicting these though. When I try to come up with reasons to fill a data center full of GPUs I inevitably fixate on things that might actually be useful to someone, which isn't the strat.
Cloud gaming is the ultimate DRM which is why it's actually being pushed. Cloud-exclusive games also make game preservation impossible which is a bonus for the art-hating vampires running the industry.
Yeah when I say "real business model" I of course mean "turns something you can own into a subscription service where you rent from an unaccountable landlord."
But I really think using a data center full of GPUs is important as well, because it's a thing that the various tech companies can argue they have a competitive advantage (pile of capital) at.
I think you're right. I've heard a lot of talk about cloud gaming from clueless boomers in industry.
RAG or self-healing for internal use, I have no clue what the next external buzzwords will be.
Post-cloud.
We’re going go push SaaS shit that is just OnPrem as a feature.
"enterprise" software is usually just paying more for self hosting
It's going to be Blockchain again. Probably with distributed or decentralization attached
When y'all weren't paying attention, bitcoin reached a new high and it's over 60k again. Half the recruiters reaching out to me represent some dumb Blockchain startup
You know this sounds a bit like a paper that was recently published
Filaments of the Slime Mold Cosmic Web and How They Affect Galaxy Evolution
I miss when futuristic words had things like "tron" "ator" as suffixes.
Turn up the Robotron Oscillator, the signal frequency is modulating!
this and putting an arbitrary large numbers at the end
introducing the Omnitron 5000™!
Decentralized. I think with AI being so heavily reliant on big server farms theyll shift to things that run locally and start calling it "Decentralized AI" or something like that.
As someone who has Mistral running in the background a lot, good God no. My CPU can't take any more.
I have a 4050 in a laptop (and CUDA is picky, causing my CPU to take the brunt of the load at times), so just a space heater.
Ah ya i think theyre gonna come out with like really efficient ways to run it locally. Just basic stuff at first tho nothing too crazy. But itll need special hardware like the new NPUs their pushing and theyll have NPUs get obsoleted like every year to try and push people to buy new hardware. Personally im not interested and will be sticking with my non-ai hardware lol.
Clean Blockchain TechnologyCertified "Green" blockchain and
a la a dozen Fukushima's with a design catastrophic failure risk of 1 in 500years on paper, but in reality it's 1 in 100. Over 12 plants it's 1 in 8.
