What are the future directions in IT?

The West in terms of IT should be considered separately from each other: Europe and the USA. European society is more conservative and this greatly affects IT, among other things. The supremacy of human rights, the inviolability of their rights and freedoms are the main pillars of the formation of this society. Specialists in IT security and human life safety, using in their practice borderline knowledge from any other areas, will be in great demand. They will find applications for their skills both in the field of web technologies and in the field of computer vision and decision-making systems based on both big-data and neural network technologies.

American society in this regard is more open to innovations, experiences and adventures. Here the market of IT specialists should be considered as mass (hunting specialists for routine for such giants as Google, Amazon, Netflix) and “unique”.

Mass workers are programmers and analysts in their majority, filling vacancies for business growth, because the infrastructure is growing and people are still needed to service it.

Unique specialists will come from completely different industries - robotics, IT bioengineering, integrators of blockchain infrastructures in big business (although the mass boom has already passed, TON and LIBRA are still expected, which can change this market), as well as VR and AR specialists.

The only common thing in the West is still the demand for GameDev specialists, who must continuously produce any entertainment content. There is information that they are even attracted to filming movies, so the demand cannot be underestimated.

As sad as it may sound, in some areas business in the CIS zone is still playing catch-up. We believe that Russia should not be separated from the entire region, and this is not due to backwardness, as one might have assumed 20 years ago, but to the inertia of business processes, the transfer of which to the IT plane is a trend of the last decade. This applies to both classic “home” services (housing and communal services, public services and others so close to the entire population), and the digitalization of the entire economy. And here we can just highlight several areas that will need to be covered by the entire IT - the continuation of the digitalization and automation of all routine processes in the lives of ordinary people and innovators. At a minimum, this direction was outlined by the President in his address to the Federal Assembly, pointing to the free and comprehensive digital availability of all government services for the population. Innovations will touch on satisfying the main need of the broad Russian soul - laziness. This includes robotics, smart home systems, unmanned vehicles and decision-making systems, as in Europe, based on big data and neural networks. That is, so that everything works on its own and does not interfere with invention.

Any direction in IT does not cease to be in demand. It is transformed, adapted to modern demands and corresponds to the natural processes of technological development. It would seem that 3-D printers are a cool breakthrough, but due to the cost, interest in them has faded a little. Although their use was actively predicted in construction and medicine, these areas are not widespread. However, not long ago we learned that 3-D printers are already printing food, for example, burger patties from meat grown in laboratory conditions. And this is a transformation of the direction. Programmers-engineers are now developing algorithms for the production of such machines for mass sales. Perhaps in a year, each of us will already have such a device in the kitchen.

IT specialists will definitely not cease to be in demand in the near future, since the transition to the digital era is in full swing and satisfaction with human resources will definitely not end in this area until it is drowned out by something else, for example, a breakthrough in space exploration (the same Elon Musk, who promises cities on Mars by the 50s, is increasingly talking about this) and then the trend may already be completely different.

Now we can safely say that IT developments are very effective in the fight against coronavirus. Unfortunately, doctors have not yet found a vaccine, but thanks to rapid progress in technology, the Chinese have almost managed to win this war. We wrote about this in the article IT technologies in the fight against coronavirus.

A desperate fight has begun for specialists and developers who have advanced at least one step further than others in the search for a vaccine. So, today the media is circulating news that Donald Trump tried to buy the manufacturers of the German company CureVac, which allegedly achieved some success in this direction. Later, the company said that no one tried to buy them, but we all understand that now the issue of a vaccine is more important than oil prices.

The fight against coronavirus is a catalyst for technological progress. All areas of business are suffering, including IT, since most companies are suffering colossal losses due to quarantine measures. Most likely, there will still be general panic until the end of March, but after 2-3 weeks of closed borders, we will already understand where the virus has spread most. And the country whose specialists are the first to find a way to treat it will receive greater profits and status over the rest.