In 20 years?
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- omahadesigns
I was wondering this today. A lot of you are web people, others are designers or photographers.
Do you think you'll just be doing the 2034 equivalent of what you do now in 20 years, be a creative director / boss, or have a different career?
Granted you're not over 45+ now.
Do you think about things like that?
- fyoucher10
All the time. Think I'll eventually just be shifting to a new technology. There will always be advertising, perhaps just in a different form or another.
I don't think there will be websites come 2034. Probably just nanochips embedded into our brain and under our skin and whatever we think, the info just appears in our eyes view. Or not.
- doesnotexist0
i always think of that quote
if you can design one thing, you can design everything
and try not to worry. the job always seems to be changing in small ways, solving different problems
- Agree with you dude, but I'm not a fan of that quote, its kinda of arrogant. (not a dig at you dude, just the quote :))Hombre_Lobo
- Who here can design a car?freedom
- Airplane?freedom
- why think you're unable?doesnotexist
- Don't confuse designing a car with engineering a car.hereswhatidid
- ok, i will not confuse the two. ever.doesnotexist
- utopian0
In 20+ years humanity will be fighting for it's survival.
- Climate change?omahadesigns
- Welcome to the thunder dome!Hombre_Lobo
- Climate, water, fossil fuel, food, etc... It's already in motion!utopian
- haven't we been doing that for +10,000 yrsdoesnotexist
- < "the earth is only 7000 years old" - bible thumpermoldero
- Alarmist much?marychain
- Fighting for its survival...with nanochips!ukit2
- Hombre_Lobo0
I assume advertising and interfaces will still need to be designed and built, so maybe we will be doing similar things.
And while software and technology could advance so much that making websites/interfaces/apps could be so easy anyone can do it, there will still always be a need for specialists who can make bespoke custom versions that are ahead of the average guy.
But who knows, probably be enslaved by an alien race by then.
- vaxorcist0
who knows... in the 90's, I went to film school, and people there thought that interactive web-like film-like stuff would replace "conventional films" as we know them, but people still flock to movie theatres, where it seems the technology has gone into special effects, not into changing the ideas of film storytelling, like closups, wide shots, establishing shots, narrative suspense,etc...
- twokids0
It's funny because I AM over 45 and what I do now I did 20 years ago - Motion design. It hasn't changed that much, really. More polygons is all, more realistic rendering tools because of cpu power. But I think Motion Design and the 3D toolset may be pretty much the same, but with more polygons and maybe distributed differently. Maybe with tools like Oculus Rift we will be creating design for 3D environments that people interact with more easily.
Thing is, imagery, content, stories.....that shit still needs to get made by someone.
- moldero0
i will be 60 with still no retirement in sight, still creating crap on my mac pro 4000 and Google 4-D 12k 10 googlebite micro video camera.
- monospaced0
I'm just glad I don't work in a field tied to a particularly niche technology (websites, flash, etc). Design, fortunately, isn't going anywhere, so hopefully in 20 years I'll just be doing more design, the only difference being that I'll be paid more and I'd be my own boss.
- brand/identity, print/packaging, environmental/experi...monospaced
- colin_s0
i can't imagine this system existing in 20 years. there will probably be smaller pockets of jobs but there's too much pushing toward a massive paradigm shift that i wouldn't be so brazen as to assume the system will be intact in its current form that far down the road.
- what system?monospaced
- Capitalism?monospaced
- not capitalism, but rather the massive tech investment / lopsided infrastructure we have now. could realistically change a lot.colin_s
- marychain0
^ I love meaningless crap like "paradigm shift"
Why don't you go ahead and reverse the polarity while yer at it.
- you haven't read too many books in you childhood, have you?pr2
- < ironicmonospaced
- dbloc0
I'll be relaxing on a yacht in the Carribean
- marychain0
None of us will have jobs...we'll fight each other with sticks and be animal pelt wearing cannibals living in an underwater post apocalyptic world run by googles killing drones
Everthing will be pretty much the same
- pr20
If you ready history books you will know that the never stopping changes occurred 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1000 years ago.
- scarabin0
i want to live in a hut and help elephants in thailand or something.
advertising is killing my soul
- ukit20
I think the exciting thing about this field is that it does keep changing. It's not like lawyer or accountant where you have to look forward to the same drudgery your whole life. Mobile design is the dominant trend now, in five years it could be consumer VR or something, 20 years who knows?
Having said that in 20 years I want to be retired to a small tropical island somewhere doing drugs like John McAfee.
- pango0
In 20 years I'm gonna be so rich that I will buy a country and become a dictator.
- mg330
I don't even know how to wrap my mind around answering this, and I'm a pretty imaginative person. I'll be 56 in 20 years. Good grief. I actually hope I'm doing very little professionally with computers at that time. But I think a lot of us in this age range - 30s-40s - are well positioned to be good decision makers as digital and technology gets more complex. We've seen the world before the onslaught of that stuff and it probably will help us make decisions that are rooted in practical thought and simplicity. But we were also young enough to accept and adapt to fast-moving technology, and keep up with it.
- cannonball19780
Even if there is a place for my skill set, I'll be so spiritually malnourished, jaded and tired of doing things for others that I think whatever I'll be doing will be for myself. Maybe I'll open a burger joint or something like that. Make a few necessary things really really well and the customer keeps their god damn mouth shut and just buys whatever it is. It's a burger. Shut your fucking face and eat the thing. Condiments are over there.
- BattleAxe0
smart home tech will be everywhere , along with smart apparel (watches, google glass , etc) , more video boards replacing posters , smart TVs will be the standard
So the demand for content will just go up ,if your good now you will be better then