As a Computer Scientist I find many science fiction movies reveal the future of robotics.  Science Fiction has often predicted a future long before hand.  The problem is Science Fiction usually depicts things completely different from the way things really turn out despite the correctness of the main idea.  For example, about 100 years before the Apollo missions made it to the moon science fiction had already been there, but in a fanciful space ship and with aliens on the moon.

Unlike science fiction I think life will go on and who is ruling the world is questionable on what that means.

I think robots will out number people in 20 years, but will they really rule anything.  Bacteria outnumber humans, but do they really rule the world?

I think robots will have far superior intellect than humans in 10 years, but does that mean they rule the world.  Did Albert Einstien rule the world?  In fact he mainly worked for people with low IQs compared to him.

I think robots will be faster, stronger, patient, durable, and much more than humans in 20 years.  Does that make Lions the ruler of the planet?

So I won’t be surprised by killer, emotional, smarter, or evil robots.  Although, ruling the world is more objective than factual.

What do you think?

In the coming decade people will leave Java and other programming languages for graphical tools. It seems that Model Driven Architecture (MDA) the dream of many programmers for decades is coming true. With model data gaining freedom from tools with XMI developers have never had a more graphical representation of what they write.

Unlike the SmallTalk, VB, and PowerBuilder craze developers now will be able to truely move between tools without the need of a massive porting project making code timeless and without language specifics.