Mechanical Sympathy

A term that's gaining traction thanks to the LMAX architecture. Low latency applications running on the JVM need to be hardware gnostic to a large degree to be able to best leverage the computing power multi-core/ multi-processor architecture.

More details to follow soon on the topic out here, for the moment you could refer to Martin Fowler's post.

Real-time Face Reading

The machines getting better and better at face reading. Ancient mystics have another reason to worry. Won't be long before recommendation engines of various kinds get built that leverage this sort of technology.

More about algorithms in this space to follow..