What will be the programming in 20-30 years?

Quora discusses various topics on the Quora question and answer website. For example, one of the users suggests to speculate on how programming will be in 20-30 years in the future ?

Michael O. Church scored the most positive reviews. He immediately stipulates that predicting the future is a thankless job. For example, how did we see the future 20-30 years ago? It was clear that the future was for the Internet. But at the same time, we thought that technological progress would make people freer, that we would work 20 hours a week and have all the necessary things. Like, robots will work.

None of this came to life (well, except for the Internet).
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Although, the development of mankind still goes in the indicated direction: we are still moving towards society without cash, even if not as fast as we would like.

Mobile computers, as predicted in the 90s, really appeared and became very popular.

But where progress is minimal is in socio-economic terms. The nature of people cannot be corrected so quickly, and it is impossible to immediately eliminate all vices, like greed and pride. As a result, it is because of these vices that poverty is still present in society. Improvements in human morality are too slow.

Speaking directly about programmers, Michael Church believes that this profession will be in demand even more than it is now, and programmers will earn more. In his opinion, the normal salary of a programmer will be approximately $ 29,000 per month (for today's money, excluding taxes) in the middle of his career, that is, at about 40 years of age.

The problem is that a lot of money will attract a lot of charlatans, who really do not understand programming. We already see this by the example of Silicon Valley, where people tend to get money, not at all dreaming of technological progress and changing the future, they just want to make more money. We will have to find ways to deal with this.

Well, the technological basis of the work does not change too much. Programming languages ​​will continue to evolve, and ideas from Lisp and Haskell will continue to spread into everyday use, but in 20 years it is unlikely that programming will be completely different from today. Programming will still be a tricky business, but it will still be a fascinating exercise when you can create new things with pure logic.