b"There are some who believe quantum systems improvements in fields of view and ever morewill be fundamentally constrained by noise but I sophisticated interfaces using gestures, voiceremain naively optimistic.and eye control. Applying liberal helpings of RayKurzweils exponential thinking to the evolutionMy second topic is the much overhyped AI and of this technology we could be looking forwardMachine Learning which has no doubt been to a real transformation in how we access datathrough a renaissance in the last few years. or perceive and interact with the world There have been some exciting and also some around us. worrying advances in machine learning, withmuch progress in the design of ever deeper The worlds accrued knowledge base which theneural networks and more eicient training internet connected will now be available to beschemes. And yet it still feels like a dark art with pro-actively and contextually pushed into ourmuch trial and error and tweaking and tuning.visual fields providing a form of digital sixthIts hard not to immediately panic when asked It seems as if a fundamental theory of neural sense. We may never get lost in an airport again,to write about the future of computing, but the networks has yet to be discovered and from this or forget an old acquaintance's name but theressolution Ive arrived at is to choose three of the perhaps well start to harness these systems, no doubting the technology will pose trickymyriad hot topics in computing and imagine their power and potential but also their nature, questions of our society concerning privacy,how they might impact our world in the future. giving us more control over explainability, bias, security and information access rights. The first of these, quantum computing, is repeatability and generalisation. simultaneously mystifying and tantalising. Once A lot has happened in computing andyou learn to accept the weirdness of quantum However, perhaps more than for any other field technology in 50 years. Ive personallyentanglement, Einsteins spooky action, its of computing that has come before, here, we as experienced about 40 of them having had firstastonishing how impactful functional large scale computer professionals, may need to agree and contact with a Sinclair ZX-80 in 1980, and yet itquantum computers could be.adopt a computing Hippocratic Oath and feels like more, much more, will happen in theparticipate in the responsibility for what these next 50 when we can look forward to quantumIt very much feels like were at the start of the systems should do rather than blind pursuit of supremacy, the AI singularity and a lifestart of a new era of computation, extending the what they could.experienced virtually. Heres hoping we canboundaries of computability and possibly respect each other and live together peacefullyleading to real breakthroughs in simulation, Finally, as a dyed in the wool computer graphics enough to see these happen.molecule design, optimisation, while also enthusiast, practical, convenient and trulybringing challenges including a rethink of our useful augmented reality feels like it is within Steve Collinsapproaches to encryption and a very dierent our grasp. The current generation of ARprogramming paradigm with concepts like fully hardware oers a glimpse into the future of thisreversible state flow and strangely behaving technology, with lighter headsets, big quantum gates. 55"