Churchill Club Top 10 Tech Trends Debate 2017
Flanked here by the CEO of Forbes and the Head of Editorial for Google Cloud, 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, and a summary by EE Times.
I love the ending ;) “There was an overall audience winner: Deep edge narrowly edged out revival of voice — both of them from tech-trends event veteran Jurvetson. So once again, he won in a rout. A couple of years ago, his prize was a wizard’s cape. This time, he got a snazzy-looking wand. Not that he needs it.”
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 (debating Thiel), 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.: video
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. video
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: video
Churchill Club Top 10 Tech Trends Debate 2017
Flanked here by the CEO of Forbes and the Head of Editorial for Google Cloud, 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, and a summary by EE Times.
I love the ending ;) “There was an overall audience winner: Deep edge narrowly edged out revival of voice — both of them from tech-trends event veteran Jurvetson. So once again, he won in a rout. A couple of years ago, his prize was a wizard’s cape. This time, he got a snazzy-looking wand. Not that he needs it.”
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 (debating Thiel), 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.: video
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. video
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: video