Bit of silly fun… but what do you think the topics will be for TWIQ in 2925???
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My money is on us still debating whether manual testing is dead.
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Really hoping to retire before then.
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Looking back 900 year for the amost advanced technologies (yes, I asked ChatGPT), I got these:
- Paper making & block printing (China)
- Gunpowder Weapons (China)
- Metalworking & Steel Production (Damascus steel (Middle East), Katana-style swords (Japan))
- Water-Driven Mechanical Engineering (water mills for example)
- Navigation & Shipbuilding Technologies (magnetic compasses, ship types like junks or dhows)
Given today’s international, space flight, knowledge about quantum mechanics and cosmology, medicine (think chemo therapy for (or rather against) cancer and contemporary vaccines)…
I think any guess would be wildly off. So here’s a (read: my) - a least slightly - apocalyptic view. (I’m not being entirely serious): Folks will start experiments to leave behind writing on papyrus or animal skin and probably fiddling with getting the recently (re-) invented letters on the new materials in a mechanical way. They move from carved wood spoons to metal knives & forks for eating. A few people will work on ways to cross larger bodies of water with dshippes (as they will call it): Wooden things the float on water and are pushed forward in the direction the wind blows. People will die all the time from small injuries.
Have a great day exploring and inventing to avoid this future. 
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I think books will be gone, printed ones at least. People will no longer be able to read, I mean the writing ability of people these days is pathetic, and gremmery (other writing assistants do exist) will have taken over all written communication. But reading and written materials will be a backwater, because everyone will be communicating using video clip short form as popularised by the toktik platform (other social platforms do exist).
More seriously, and only because a repeated question I get is, is AI worth trying. And I always have 2 answers. #1 AI is roughly 40 years old already, so if you have not tried using it you are very far behind the curve. #2 It still cannot make toast the properly British way, done only on one side. But taxi drivers are already losing jobs right now.
So I’m going to predict like others, that manual testing will still not be dead, and that we will still not have standards for processes even though ISTQB and ISO certifications and regulations will have moved on, they are all, manual processes or tools. The standards battles will never die, they are a innately human aspect of our world. Everything will be connected, all of the time, so security testers will be making much more money than automation testers, who in turn already make more money than manual testers, even if that is unfair. We will be testing machines, not software. And that is because we are already into the 4th industrial revolution, which is additive manufacturing. Basically everything, even food will be made using progressions of 3D printing processes, which are highly digitally driven and pushing everything we do into our field, software. I predict there will be just as many software testing jobs out there as currently, because, well, we all know why.
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Since I will be no more in this world by that time 
, I can’t comment, but it is most likely that AI will stop hallucinating by then and will develop, test, and deploy itself.
Meanwhile, humans will be busy attending meetings as usual.
Hopefully by then we’ll be testing hoverboards. That was supposed to happen in 2015.
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