Futurology for Developers

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Starts from a Tandon 286 and Wyse 60 in 1989 and shows concrete tech milestones, hardware and costs: Apple A12X (2.5 GHz, 8 cores, ~10B transistors), AMD Threadripper 64 cores ~50B transistors, 4 TB microSD, a 4 TB card surviving wash and dryer, Raspberry Pi for €35 and Nvidia Jetson Nano for edge AI, and cheap standalone VR like Oculus Quest ($399). Discusses fabrication limits (≈1.4 nm), HoloLens 2 (£3,500) field-of-view and Unity/Net Core tooling, 3D printing moving from $100k racks to €700 full-color printers, and AI milestones (Deep Blue, Watson, AlphaZero).

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1. 0:00Introduction and talk overview
2. 1:11Computing power from 1989 to now
3. 12:39Extrapolating future tech trends
4. 25:55User interfaces and VR revolution
5. 37:00Augmented reality and spatial computing
6. 43:413D printing and manufacturing future
7. 47:38AI and future computing paradigms
8. 50:29Futuristic predictions and summary