What's your predictions for the next few 18 months?

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I've seen the previous posts from this year and the previous years.It seems like there was a lot of unexpected things these past few months that no one really expected. Knowing what we know now, what are you predictions?I don't really have a prediction, it seems it's easy to predict things when things are going really well, but it seems, like things are hard to predict when there area a lot of uncertainty

mikewarot · Accepted Answer

Over the next 6 months, the penny will drop that Covid in the US never really ended, we just stopped treating it as a public health emergency, unlike the rest of the world. As a result, our long covid numbers will continue to climb. Workers will become increasingly hard to find as the disabled population of the US climbs at a staggering rate.
Evidence: Look at the trends for the rest of the world, vs the US where we no longer fund testing, nor encourage it, nor reporting of Covid cases.
Sources like [1] Johns Hopkins still track it, world wide.
1 - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

jsz0 · Answer

I've been saying this for a while but I think we're about to see a ton of tech jobs disappear or see dramatically lower wages. With modern DevOps practices, managed services, etc I just don't see how a lot of these job roles can continue to exist. One of the reasons I got out of network engineering was I realized one day a decent algorithm would be able do 95% of my job better than I could.

nonrandomstring · Answer

> but it seems like things are hard to predict when there are a lot of uncertaintyHave you ever heard of novelty waves?

BOOSTERHIDROGEN · Answer

What was the unexpected things ?