What IT pros to learn today to remain in demand tomorrow

The world is steadily moving toward absolute digital future, and it will not do without IT professionals. So, projected Agency for Strategic Initiatives and Skolkovo, to 2030, you may receive dozens of new jobs, and about half of them will require knowledge in the field of technology. Smartphones and tablets have conquered the world. Sunglasses, watches, fitness devices, cars will become a new platform (especially after we otoydom from management). Specialists will be needed to prepare the content and applications for these devices.

The same trend is also confirmed by foreign analysts: Gartner predicts global technology boom by 2020.

Of course, the classic areas of work will not disappear so fast, but it's possible we will not know the world in 10 years. The labor market is changing rapidly, and if you are thinking about the development of a new direction, that is what should look at more closely.

Digital medicine

By 2050, the proportion of the population over 65 will exceed 20% (according to the Pew Research Center). And the older the population, the greater the demand for medical services.

Technology development has provoked the appearance of professional niches, of which no one could think of a couple of years ago. In traditional industries there areas in which you need knowledge of information technology. For example, an extremely promising area - 3D. Already, advanced medical clinics used 3D-press-and 3D-scanning prosthetic or growing organs from a patient's tissue. And though now such examples are quite rare, medicine is unthinkable without the use of advanced technologies.

Who to be: the architect of the medical equipment, the operator of medical robots, network doctor, Designer neyrointerfeys, specialist gene editing.

What to read and learn:

• "Additive manufacturing technology. Three-dimensional printing, rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing, "Ian Gibson, Brent Stucker, David Rosen.
• "Modern technology of production of three-dimensional electronic devices," A. Kondrashin, A. Ljamin V. Blind.

Blokcheyn

If a ranking of "The main HYIP year", the blokcheyn (trusted by all participants environment that provides distributed database with the ability to automate smart contracts) would definitely hit the five most discussed concepts.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Experiments with technology blokcheyna spent more than 40 of the leading financial companies in the world. For example, at the state level, we can talk about all kinds of registers of property rights, institutions, documents, personal identification, voting and elections, all kinds of cases, the audit and compliance (all that relates to the tax reporting, anti-money laundering funds).

As an example of business problems can cause the same supply registers, the implementation of payments-P2P networks (from user to user). Using blokcheyna interbank cross-border transfers could be easier and cheaper (for example, reduced bank fees due to the exclusion of a number of intermediaries). Perhaps in the near future we will not see on the market from companies such as Visa or MasterCard.

Who to be: blokcheyn architect.

What to read and learn:

• «digital gold"Nathaniel Popper.
• «Bitcoin. More than money, "Alex Fork.
• «Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World», Alex Don Tapscott Tapscott.
• «Blokcheyn: New Opportunities in a Growing Industry"(Free course" Netologii "and BANKEX).

Artificial Intelligence

Waiter, teacher, driver, marketing, HR-manager - forget. Compete with traditional occupations, sooner or later it will create artificial intelligence. Already successfully autopilot drives a car instead of a person, the robot conducts dictations. By the way, in the future by the IT people have to learn with the help (or maybe even under the direction of) AI-teacher which will dynamically adjust to the level of each student and offer him relevant materials tasks.

In the new world of people and artificial intelligence will be important to find a common language, which means that demand for profession will be at the junction of domains and AI.

For example, in medicine need to understand both the doctor and the algorithm for solving a specific problem in the technology level.

Of course, it will change the interface and communication with the outside world. We came to the restaurant and order dinner? Chat with a bot. According announced at the Facebook F8 conference, Facebook Messenger only platform currently created about 100 thousand bots.

The very idea of ​​a chat-bot is not as new as it seems (the first chat bot ELIZA appeared in 1966), but with the growing popularity of instant messengers, their role in everyday life has increased. In the realm of digital technology is much faster and easier to talk to the bot than wait for an answer operator, so chat bots actively use brands to retain customers or attract more young audience. With their help, you can activate the loyalty card, to change the date of express delivery, order a taxi, buy a ticket movie or even automate the office business processes (for example, pass an order or reservation negotiation room).

Who to be: designer, machine learning, neural networks developer.

What to read and learn:

• The course "Introduction to Machine Learning"From the Higher School of Economics (free - education without obtaining a certificate, 1668 rubles - training with certificate).
• Intro to Artificial Intelligence (Free course from Udacity).
• "The brain and the computer," Alex M. Andrew.
• "Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose.
• podcast Talking Machines.

Internet of Things and augmented reality

Internet of Things is sweeping the planet: the company estimates the Verizon, four years for every person on Earth would have to at least one device connected to the network.

Internet of things in its most simple form is familiar to us from the time of sharing photos or music using the infrared port or Bluetooth - the logic in the process is the same. The practical significance of modern technology much more: Equipment, equipped smart sensors allow to control lighting, make toast exactly at the time of morning awakening, control energy consumption across the entire area, to monitor the serviceability of components devices. For example, the new Mercedes E-Class is already equipped with V2V technology, which allows them to communicate with each other.

Augmented reality can be an excellent match for the IoT, since it allows a person to provide the necessary information. For example, indoor positioning to determine the position in the room where the GPS or GLONASS available. Space Special building lighthouses. Augmented reality allows you to see the route by simply pointing the phone's camera.

Who to be: architect of intelligent buildings, smart roads builder, engineer smart grid, architect virtuality, IoT-developer.

What to read and learn:

• Course IoT Fundamentals by Cisco Networking Academy.
• Longrid Rusbase of Russian and foreign IoT market.
• "The future of things," David Rose.
• Top TED-speech about the internet of things.

BIM-technology

BIM-technology (aka BIM in construction) has already become a national standard in the UK, Singapore, Norway and China. From 2019 should be relevant for Russian objects of public procurement.

BIM allows you to create a common space for all participants in the design, construction or operation of the shopping center, road or residential complex, and thus effectively manage all the work and costs in all stages of the life cycle object. If we add to this the technology of virtual reality, the developer or even the potential buyer can not just visit the site, but also to control the process, such as building walls or adjacent arrangement territory.

Who to be: BIM-manager, BIM-engineer.

What to teach: course "Designing buildings. BIM"From the" Open Education ".