>*So much technology has come and gone since 2000. If innovation continues to ac...

>So much technology has come and gone since 2000. If innovation continues to accelerate I'd be hesitant to predict what 2040 will look like.

Not much core technology -- e.g. programming languages and their ecosystems.

Frameworks, or specific business cases or tools ('grid computing', 'big data', 'no sql' etc) sure...