Following Emerging Technologies
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These new and old and theoretical and applied are difficult to track in great detail due to the controversial perceptions by factions pursuing them and early developmental stages ... unless they hit early with some radical impact that cannot be ignored.
Through it all I look for trends which persist over time and there is where I spot those threads to follow in the literature.
Lately, however I feel the need to track lists in a spreadsheet or give up the notion of following emerging technologies simply because it interferes with the practical work for which I get a paycheck.
Suffice it to say emerging technologies are a bit too developmental for someone like me — a specialized hack of today instead of that renaissance man generalist I was long ago.
Alas, I continue to grow old.
All that remains for me from the vast pool of those emerging technologies I read about is pretty much AI and database elements and even the AI isn't something I pursue to code so much as to model algorithms upon in my quest for an edge in my work.
So I remain on the outside of the vast bulk of emerging technologies looking into what "might be" viz a viz "what is". While I may gain efficiency and methods those innovations pale in comparison to what is happening in the real world.
So much going on, so little time.