Trips get you get a very good feel for the overarching themes and new technologies that will drive the market over the next years.
Hopefully, it can also confirm in what you were already thinking.
This time it is about what technology can do for the ecosystem as one of my colleagues noted below.
“As we move into a new technology paradigm, Assistants, Augmented Reality and Autonomy are all underpinned by Artificial Intelligence in a way that either increases and cements companies’ share of a consumer’s wallet, or embeds that company’s offering in the city of the future."
Boundaries between geographies and sectors are being dismantled
Bubbles, after all, facilitate investment in underlying technological change
But what is clear is that governments have two options: regulate the giants or work with them to solve their pressing needs. All evidence suggests the latter.
What stuff do we need to understand ?
What is the future?
He thinks the current technological revolution is akin to the 1920’s industrial revolution and we are presently at the top of the Mobile S curve and about to enter a new phase.
The “present” is grinding to a halt, and no one is quite sure how it plays out.
Put simply, governments are terrified of a social revolution in the next decade if no solution is found
The big difference with the next tech cycle is there is no need to create demand as the demand is already there. This is unprecedented in history.
Regulatory concerns are less likely to be an issue as regulators are already working with the operators.