I don't think so. Even if somebody tried to write a big thick book on the subject, it would be pointless, because it mostly depends on available technologies and the goals of the development in a particular organization or a particular team. So, by the time such book is finished, it would be of little value, as the picture can change dramatically.
Besides, you should understand that development of technology is not something rational, following someone's wise plan. Rather, this is a result of many competing interests and ambitions. Way too many things have very short live and hardly useful in the very beginning, some, good or bad, can be influential for decades or longer. The future is unpredictable in principle, still some leaders are more successful in choosing of the technologies then others, but some are failing and whole big companies eventually suffer great losses or go out of business due to critical mistakes in technological politics. I can say for sure that very, very few people have knowledge, experience, vision and intuition good enough to develop good technological politics.
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Well, I can give only two recommendations, very general and fuzzy ones:
- Don't fall into something which seems "cool".
- Focus on most fundamental knowledge.
—SA
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