Tech is seeing some serious development, it's hard yet surreal. I have tried the following stuff over the years and some things got me excited.
Session backends
Imagine having a computer in the cloud, a freaking powerful computer that you can turn on/off at any instant. A computer with TBs of RAM, at least 1000k vCPU, TBs of graphic memory.
If any application had this much power, things won't be the same anymore and the world wouldn't be the same anymore.
We will not care about technological limitations, companies will have to innovate more. Everyone would have access to the same core of technology.
Full stack devtools
The last 20 years of web focused on robustness, the next decade will be around enhancing the UX and DX. The libraries will start to couple tightly with infra.
It will be harder to build tools but it'll also provide lot of opportunities for startups.
Better open source tools
Till now design and UX of most open source projects has been meh. Design hasn't been the main focus in open source.
The next open source will be built on the learnings of former with better product and design approach. And we have already started seeing tools like Supabase, Crusher :P, etc.
Real edge compute
Till this point, we haven't faced much problem with latency. But as our computers move farther from us, then this can become a big issue.
Anything more than >2-5ms round trip time will be a dealbreaker. We might have a future where every city has a data center as infra. It is wild to imagine it. I'm expecting lot of improvements in congestion control.
ML models
Tools like GPT, DALL-E, Midjourney have built something unimaginable. We have finally hit a saturation level where AIs are better than humans.
It's wild, there are more models to be built around different use cases. Maybe everyone has fine-tuned models according to their needs.