The car as a platform. Self-driving cars means cars will provide entertainment, news, and a work environment.
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#12Group housing may become popular when we get AI surveillance that can watch over the common areas and identify abusers. But that's probably more than 5 years out.
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#13Sensor networks. Interconnected intelligent self-adjusting self-responding devices. A marketplace of data generators and data consumers. Summarizing mountain of data, text, articles, detecting trends and responding.
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#14Distributed...PC's, "broadband", and mobile are early iterations of a ubiquitous computing mesh. This is not so much the internet of things but human controlled computing...that's where the margins are, not in industrial commodities. The next big thing will provide people with more computational power and more reach.
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#15Distributed...PC's, "broadband", and mobile are early iterations of a ubiquitous computing mesh. This is not so much the internet of things but human controlled computing...that's where the margins are, not in industrial commodities. The next big thing will provide people with more computational power and more reach.
What hardware/software platforms and network protocols do you envision for the UC mesh? Distributed gossip protocols or centralized named-data and content-centric networking?
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#16Distributed...PC's, "broadband", and mobile are early iterations of a ubiquitous computing mesh. This is not so much the internet of things but human controlled computing...that's where the margins are, not in industrial commodities. The next big thing will provide people with more computational power and more reach.
What hardware/software platforms and network protocols do you envision for the UC mesh? Distributed gossip protocols or centralized named-data and content-centric networking?
Keyboards.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keyboards.
A UC mesh of ... prose?
The infrastructure and protocols aren't the relevant place for innovation. TCP/IP wasn't the greenfield of money making opportunities when everyone started connecting to the internet. 3G wasn't the greenfield when everyone went mobile.
Look at tablets...they're getting keyboards as an upsell. They're becoming full computing devices. The cell phone companies' walled gardens aren't the future. Maintaining a walled garden requires constantly delivering features people really want. That's not a telephone company's core competency. They're future is in providing infrastructure for general computing. All they really want is mailbox checks.
General computing is better with keyboards.
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#19From a mainstream consumer software startup's standpoint I'm pretty sure adoption of mobile is still the biggest trend. The last 10 years was about everyone starting to have "smartphones" and mobile internet access. Now it's about society adjusting to "mobile" and doing more with their phones. Just look at Snapchat, Periscope or how people use Messenger. We definitely have at least 5 more years of major innovation in mobile usage. I think we're only about to hit the "early-majority" stage.
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#20If the FAA gets it's act together then drones (aka flying personal butlers) could certainly be it. The disruption they could bring to delivery, courier, security, tourism, gaming, etc could be huge. Also, self-driving cars (if they reached a reasonable price-point in the next few years) could have pretty profound effects on ridesharing, delivery, parking, congestion, etc. Could be a major quality-of-life changer for…
In terms of self-driving cars, I think one of the major opportunities there is mobile devices, but in a slightly different context. People will still have their commutes, but now they'll be time to fill. Which will probably happen via mobile devices.