VB: What will be hot?
CC: The good news is this is the best time for innovation in the history of the world. Every field is wide open. The internet doesn’t work. It isn’t fast enough or secure enough. We can’t find things as fast as we want. We can’t sort them. Nothing has helped in the last 20 years. Healthcare is going through its biggest transformation ever, from anatomy, chemistry, biology and physics to becoming an information industry. There are many opportunities there. Energy technologies are not where they need them to be in terms of cost. Education is transitioning to networks in the classroom. That has always been the dream. We tried one system that got transformation results in Texas and Florida. Media is being turned upside down and there are opportunities there. Every field has opportunities. The reason is that ones you turn things from atoms and muscle to bits, things move really fast. Almost everything is moving faster. There are factors of improvement from tens to thousands. Then you get these exponential improvements colliding with each other, like in biotechnology with computers, genomics, and chip technologies colliding. I’d say just about everything is hot.
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Author: Dean Takahashi
