Question: “Do you expect that IT work in 10 years from now, will be more fun or less fun than it is today, and why?”
Mark Aldridge
I think that it will be more fun as there will so much more technology to learn in 10 years time and so many amazing features in ConfigMgr 2706!
DareDevelOPs
I think it will be more fun as open source projects become more the norm. Also as Infrastructure as Code becomes all things as code (ATaC?), the challenge level is going to go up. We will be more focused on solving the problem than running the infrastructure. Also the kinds of industries will change from country to country as the Human Development Index shifts and Nation State ranking changes. The level of Virtualization in all areas life will continue down Moore’s law critical path, even as the compute hardware reaches Moore’s limit. te things we IT will get shinier. …or Skynet.
Stephen Owen
More fun! IT has only gotten more interesting and varied, with the introduction of mobile devices and tons of new form factors. I think in ten years we all will finally know what we’re doing with Windows updates, and probably have a better handle on security practices.
I think the Wild West days of IT are behind us, and I for one am happy about it. My phone definitely rings less on weekend now than it did five years ago.
Damien Van Robaeys
When I see all available technologies, I can imagine that, in 10 years, the working environment will also change.
This will be the time of mixed reality, even if Minority report won’t be for now.
I hope we will work with Holographic computers, like the Hololens.
Maybe computers, like laptop or desktop, if they still exist, will use an holographic screen and holographic keyboards.
Imagine your computer, in a small box that will display a screen above, and a keyboard on your desk.
Meetings would be done with holographic system, like in Star Wars , with a system that will allow you to say Hey call Mr X, and Mr X will appear in front of you in hologram, like Obi Wan Kenobi.
Rob Spitzer
Fun is such a relative thing. I’ve met DBAs that are super passionate about their jobs yet I can’t imagine how that could be any fun. Conversely I’ve been asked on multiple occasions how I deal with Exchange every day. It’s just something I found that I enjoy doing.
There’s no doubt IT is changing. We’ve seen this happen before. We rarely build hardware anymore and now we’re seeing things like software installation and configuration go away as we move more to the cloud. I’ve seen Exchange change a lot over the last 20 years but, at its heart, it’s still the same thing I’ve enjoyed all along, even in the cloud.
You just need to make sure you find a role that you’re passionate about. If you have a hard time putting down at the end of the day, odds are you found it.
Ami Casto
IT, fun? What? IT has been and will always be what you make of it. 10 years from now you’ll still be fixing some idiot policy you didn’t create but have to clean up the mess now that the poo has hit the fan. You’ll just have to keep looking for the things that make you passionate about what you do.
Arnie Tomasovsky
I expect it to be less fun, as thanks to AI, everything will be a lot more automated. BUT human being will remain as the end user, therefore fun won’t disappear 🙂
Johan Arwidmark
I expect it to be more fun, and more complex. Why? Hopefully less politics, and more ongoing maintenance/upgrades, and more automation.
Nicke Kallen
There are two directions that this can go in… either we aim for a specialized knowledge set where employees will continue tinkering as they do today. The number will not be as many as we have today, but larger corporations will still depend on this knowledge and for the people that have actively developed this skillset – it’s a lot more fun.
The other option is that we are somewhere down the journey to be completely commoditized. Perhaps a few service providers have staff, but apart from that we define business requirements and ensure the logistics part of delivering IT works. Its most likely not the cup of tea for today’s it workers…
Mike Terrill
I think IT will be even more fun 10 years from now. The reason for this is because our field is growing at a rapid pace and will continue to do so over the next 10 years. Just imagine some of the gadgets we will have in the future and how much AI will have progressed.
Rod Trent
A: <Beavis and Butthead mode on…> Hehe…you said work in IT is fun </Beavis and Butthead mode off>
Chris DeCarlo
So I’m sure everyone you asked this question will say “More fun…” So I’ll play devil’s advocate here and say less fun. AI is already making decent strides, and with the great progress of robots and VR already I envision AI being fully integrated into robotics in the next 10 years. These AI enhanced robots will take over our call centers and end user support roles with 24×7 support and no need for breaks or health care. From there AI will be integrated into the Windows OS and automatically Google( or I mean Bing) and fix any errors that appear on your server/sccm software leaving us “organ sacks” or “blood bags” with basic tasks such as lubricating the robots joints, and polishing the robots shiny metal ….
Skatterbrainz
More fun for some. Less fun for others. More work for software folks, less work for hardware folks. In all, I think there will be some serious reduction in IT staffing for many data center roles, as those things morph into “Software-Defined <x>” while evaporating into the cloud. Then again, it’s not inconceivable that some unforeseen events could trigger a massive reversion from cloud back to on-prem. Government intrusion, for one, might have that sort of impact.
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