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What do you mean by “withheld from the public”? Technology is already partly trade secrets. There would be no point preventing the Dutch from exporting fab machinery to China if that were not so.

I’ll make some narrow predictions about programming languages:

- something like terraform will be integrated into most languages

- you’ll be able to switch your web api from being hosted on AWS Lambda / k8s / Cloudflare Workers / etc to a different platform just by rebuilding and redeploying, just like cross-compiling is trivial with Go today

- there will still be an awful lot of of C and COBOL hanging around

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