Churchill Club Top 10 Tech Trends Debate 2017
Each of the five VC panelists submit their top two tech trend ideas in advance, and then we debate each other on stage. The ultimate rankings are based on the ~500 people in the live audience. Here is a fun summary of the trends and the panelist reactions: https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/05/26/tiny-brains-everywhere-plague-fighting-microbiomes-eight-hot-tech-trends/
I have a particular challenge, having done this debate for almost 20 years now, to not repeat myself… with prior predictions about EVs in 2012, machine learning in 2013, autonomous cars in 2015 and others on space and synthetic biology trends.
Here is the first one that I defended… The Revival of Voice: The multi-touch screen UI finally cracked the code for smartphones. Major breakthroughs in voice will vastly broaden the compute fabric of the world.: https://youtu.be/31BbJYxd4MQ?t=21m49s
And the second one…. The Deep Edge: The Embedding of Tiny Brains (Inference Engines / Neural Nets) in Everything: Couple some local intelligence to each sensor and the internet of things becomes the sensory cortex of the planet. https://youtu.be/31BbJYxd4MQ?t=1h4m54s
P.S. The summary in that article is directionally correct, but in some cases, it reduces the arguments a bit much. Such as my retort to the first trend idea on education. Here is what I said: https://youtu.be/31BbJYxd4MQ?t=15m55s
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