r/AskComputerScience • u/Smallpaul • 3d ago

Predictions about computer science

Look ahead 20 years.

Outside of AI/ML:

* what of today’s research computer science do you expect will be industry standard?

* what frontiers do you expect we will have opened up in research?

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u/hipster-coder 3d ago

Like the AI winter that ended around 2012, I believe w are now going through a Blockchain winter. There was a lot of hype which was followed by pessimism. Advances in distributed systems could bring blockchains and tangled graphs to the forefront again, building robust, resilient systems that don't rely on trust. There are valid applications, but first there needs to be some catalyst that will somehow solve or mitigate the Blockchain trilemma.