The future – how trends will affect Cortex-M developers

In the final section of this book, we attempt to translate emerging societal and technological trends into their impact on Cortex-M software development. This is a very subjective undertaking, as predicting the future is fraught with biases and faulty assumptions, but we nonetheless will try.

We are at a critical inflection point in human history, with technological capabilities increasing exponentially as advancements in computation produce faster advancements of computation. Our society is rapidly reconfiguring around technology but is largely still based on centuries-old institutions; our governments were created when the newspaper was the primary mass communication method. Our human brains have largely remained the same for thousands of years, with our core instincts and intuition developing in a completely different society based around hunting and gathering. So, humanity now has a problem: we have Paleolithic emotions...