WordPress: The Next Generation – A Look Into WordPress Sites 5, 20, and 50 Years into the Future

Today, developers are well into embracing WordPress to enable the next generation of applications: creating rich native applications, powering home automation devices, supplying data to video games, and powering the data behind 3D applications.

With very few exceptions, much of these applications are widely unknown to a site owner in 2015. Similar to how custom post type functionalities are now well-known among the masses, what does the world look like when clients begin demanding these new possibilities? When developers start building them?

What does a residential home powered by WordPress really look like?

How could the concept of a social network change in 50 years, and how would that change how people interact with BuddyPress?

How would the WordPress UI team address design and development for augmented-reality interfaces?

What does a conversation between a WordPress developer with 46 years experience and a developer born in 2040 sound like?

These and other questions are explored with completely dramatized videos and images of this future, as well as (hypothetical) code examples, along with contextual commentary from Rami Abraham.

Attendees of this session don’t require any programming experience at all. However, there are a few brief notes that would benefit from an attendee having intermediate to advanced WordPress development knowledge.

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