Physical Digital Computing
Already many in Silicon Valley contemplating of moving from digital-only to Physical-Digital.
Another new trend:
Computer Reimagined - Novel Architecture, Materials, UI
Physical Digital Computer
"The most successful companies will focus on connecting the virtual and physical worlds. Google has already anticipated the trend with driverless cars, Google Glass, robots and, with its $3.2 billion purchase of Nest, domestic thermostats. The rest of the Valley will follow. The year’s buzzword will be “wearables”: for example, medical gadgets that keep a constant watch on your blood pressure, glucose level and food intake, and tell you if trouble is on the way.
"Wearables” will be the praetorian guard of a huge army of objects. Household items attached to the internet will act like servants in “Downton Abbey”—unobtrusively turning the thermostat up or down or politely suggesting that it is time to call the plumber. Cars will fill up with electronic devices that will make it easier and safer to drive and work on the road.
The rise of intelligent devices will allow the Valley to rediscover its roots as an engineering centre. This Valley was briefly sidelined by the social-networking revolution. But engineers are returning to reclaim their own. Tesla is making cars in Palo Alto. BMW, Mercedes, Samsung, Nissan and General Electric have all established research and design laboratories. Medical-device companies are flocking in.
Worn in the USA
The rise of intelligent devices will force San Francisco to share more of the limelight, which it has been basking in since the social-media boom, with San Jose. But San Francisco is already home to device companies such as Lemnos Labs, and it will have a chance to reinvent itself as a centre of wearable fashion rather than of social networking. The wearable revolution will not only see Silicon Valley tightening its links with old-fashioned engineering firms. It will also see it forming alliances with centres of fashion and design such as New York, Los Angeles and a particularly energetic pioneer of mixing technology and fashion, London.
The balance of Valley power will shift. Social-media giants such as Twitter and Facebook will look like old dowagers. New giants will emerge at speed to displace them in the public imagination. The great survivors from the Obama era will be Apple, which has always focused on making devices (its Apple Watch hits the stores in 2015), and Google, which is moving swiftly into the new world.
Intelligent devices will provide the Valley with a new-found seriousness. Social-media companies essentially dealt with virtual candy-floss: nice to have but, for the most part, hardly essential. The new generation of entrepreneurs will deal in devices that can save lives. Truly, all that is airy will become solid."
Already many in Silicon Valley contemplating of moving from digital-only to Physical-Digital.
Another new trend:
Silicon Valley whizzes want to make real world impact, like improving health of general population through "Wearables", (instead of hacking the next great messaging app!). And they are looking for more make-a-thons besides hack-a-thons.
Computer Reimagined - Novel Architecture, Materials, UI
Physical Digital Computer
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