Tech is already in a correction: VCs have pulled back on capital, unicorns are dying, and folks in this-is-a-terrible-idea startups are getting laid off. It's happening in slow motion because most of these companies are privately funded and they run out of runway at different points in time.
I'm actually betting that in the broader economy, we get a bubble as Trump's tax plan & infrastructure spending kick in and Yellen doesn't pull back on interest rates hard enough, then a short 1-2 year period of absolute mania as SOX & Dodd-Frank are rolled back and ordinary people can invest in the stock market again, there'll be a massive wealth transfer from poor to rich, and then a very hard crash when they run out of suckers. Then the government will panic at the crash, dump money into the economy, and we'll get hyperinflation. Civil unrest follows, with mass protests, a government crackdown, and the eventual disintegration of the U.S. as a nation-state.
Hard to predict the timing of such an involved sequence of events, though. The tax plan is under works right now, and maybe we'll get infrastructure spending in the first year of Trump's presidency. That'd indicate the bubble beginning around late 2018, reaching crescendo just after re-election in 2020, and popping around 2021.
With the wide adoption of WebGL, it's a good time to get involved in graphics. Furthermore, GPUs are taking over esp. with the advent of machine learning (nvidia stock grew ~3x, amd ~5x last year). The stuff nvidia has been recently doing is kinda crazy. I wouldn't be surprised if in 15 years, instead of AWS, we are using geforce cloud or smth, just because nvidia will have an easier time building a cloud offering than amazon will have building a gpu.
These are some good resources to get started with graphics/games
# WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL
Historically, C++ has definitely been THE language for doing graphics but if you are starting these these, you would have to have really compelling reasons to start with C++ and not JavaScript and WebGL. And that's coming from someone who actually likes C++ and used to write it professionally.
This is more of college textbook if you'd prefer that but the WebGL one is more accessible and less dry.
# Physically Based Rendering & Real-Time Rendering
These discuss some state of the art techniques in computer graphics. I'm not going to claim to have really read them but from what I've seen they are very solid.
I'm actually betting that in the broader economy, we get a bubble as Trump's tax plan & infrastructure spending kick in and Yellen doesn't pull back on interest rates hard enough, then a short 1-2 year period of absolute mania as SOX & Dodd-Frank are rolled back and ordinary people can invest in the stock market again, there'll be a massive wealth transfer from poor to rich, and then a very hard crash when they run out of suckers. Then the government will panic at the crash, dump money into the economy, and we'll get hyperinflation. Civil unrest follows, with mass protests, a government crackdown, and the eventual disintegration of the U.S. as a nation-state.
Hard to predict the timing of such an involved sequence of events, though. The tax plan is under works right now, and maybe we'll get infrastructure spending in the first year of Trump's presidency. That'd indicate the bubble beginning around late 2018, reaching crescendo just after re-election in 2020, and popping around 2021.