Ask HN: What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010?

by slapshot on 12/31/2009, 2:44 AM with 16 comments

In light of TechCrunch's wrapup of the biggest stories of 2000-2009, what do you think will be the biggest technology story of 2010? Apple undermining the cable networks? Facebook going public? Twitter getting bought? The CrunchPad getting fixed? ... Let's hear it!

  • by portman on 12/31/2009, 4:18 AM

    The rebirth of the technology IPO. Two of the following five will IPO: Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype.

  • by teuobk on 12/31/2009, 4:36 AM

    I'm going to be a contrarian and predict that tablets fail to gain traction outside of a small niche market. The Apple tablet will be an amazing piece of technology, sure, but I don't think that people are going to want to carry around a device of that size without having a physical keyboard for input.

  • by weaksauce on 12/31/2009, 4:03 AM

    The Apple tablet revolutionizes modern medicine as a simple checklist app tailor made for doctors reduces hospital mistakes by 50%.

  • by gry on 12/31/2009, 3:55 AM

    Cell networks as dumb pipes.

    EDIT: "becoming" to "as"

  • by kgopal on 12/31/2009, 11:20 AM

    Augmented Reality. Facebook in school. Teaching through Social networks. Elimination of old studies and introduction of new concepts. Nano technology more in your face. Mobile devices replacing computers. We getting a cure for cancer. We growing limbs again. The futures fine to look forward to.

    Unless we destroy ourselves before that.

  • by anigbrowl on 12/31/2009, 2:50 AM

    Tablets, tablets everywhere.

  • by hga on 12/31/2009, 1:55 PM

    Foundational cloud computing becoming really big.

    By "foundational" I mean the raw level stuff like Amazon Web Services such as S3, EC2.

  • by DanielBMarkham on 12/31/2009, 3:11 AM

    Real-time web starts being much more a part of the average user's browser experience.

  • by adam_feldman on 12/31/2009, 5:14 AM

    A huge step forward towards real broadband ubiquitous Internet access (A larger clearwire wimax rollout perhaps?)