Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Paul Saffo: Quote for May 5, 2010

I'm very interested in sensors. I see a decade-scale progression, from PCs to the Internet to phones to today. Now the key technology for this decade is sensors. Accelerometers. MEMS devices. Cheap video cameras. RFID tags. It's an interaction revolution. We don't yet have the poster child for the sensor revolution. Where is the next big fortune to be made? The next big thing is robots. Computers from the 80s, the connectivity from the 90s, the sensors now. You put wheels on it and you've got a robot. That's the next thing that will blow everyone's mind: a vast robotic revolution.
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