My 2cents …

Five main technology areas that will change the way people build, sell, and use enterprise software:

Function as a Service (FaaS) aka Server-Less 

This will change everything in the IaaS and PaaS world! Why? Because you don’t have to think about System Updates, Security Issues or anything else! You can concentrate on your core activities: Developing Software. But it will take time to move from existing concepts to FaaS – so this will be a “thing” in the upcoming years.

Open source is the new standard 

What else? I mean – seriously.

Containers and Microservices architectures will dig deeper

For those who can’t embrace FaaS – yes, this will be a big topic 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning

Its getting easier to use AI for small companies. So yes .. this will be a thing … but from my perspective – this will take some more years to be usable as a service AND then it will a big thing.

Cybersecurity and data protection regulations

Security SHOULD always be a topic. Who on earth is putting his internal financial data or user data on a public S3 site???

Source: 5 Technology Trends That Will Change Enterprise Software in 2018 – DZone DevOps

From the age of fifty, Moore’s Law began to age rapidly, passing into senescence and then, at the beginning of this month, into oblivion. Moore’s Law leaves a thriving multi-trillion dollar global semiconductor and electronics industry, along with a growing set of questions about how that industry will survive its passing.

Quelle: Death notice: Moore’s Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 • The Register

The total network of computers plugged into the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy each day as some medium-size countries  …

“I would personally feel very unhappy if my main contribution to the world was adding Cyprus’s worth of electricity consumption to global warming,”

Quelle: There Is Nothing Virtual About Bitcoin’s Energy Appetite – The New York Times

Pop music has become

• slower in tempo,
• “sadder” and less “fun” to listen to,
• melodically less complex, using fewer chord changes, and recordings are mastered to sound consistently louder, and
• more repetitive over the years, and that song lyrics from today compress 22% better on average than less repetitive song lyrics from the 1960s.

2. There has been a significant increase in the use of the first-person word “I” in pop song lyrics, and a decline in words that emphasize society or community.

Quelle: Has pop music lost its fun? – BBC Music

Quelle: Social Decay on Behance

Google researchers developed a psychedelic sticker that, when placed in an unrelated image, tricks deep learning systems into classifying the image as a toaster.

Quelle: A Simple Sticker Tricked Neural Networks Into Classifying Anything as a Toaster

Quelle: xkcd: Meltdown and Spectre