What is possibly going to be a huge entrepreneurial and investment opportunity of the next two decades? I posit AI along with machines powered by AI. Yes, a core latent opportunity will be integrating AI systems to make hardware systems smarter and better (you can call that modern robotics).
How do you make agriculture drones with better intelligence? How do you make medical devices that are smarter? How can you improve the miracles doctors perform with better tools that improve their performance by 100X? How do you improve local and global supply chain with in-system sensors?
I have done surgeries on pigs, testing minimal invasive surgical navigational tools, with laryngoscope and endoscope. I have done abdominal and thoracic surgeries to see how machines and tools work on animals (see photo). The challenge remains that most of the tools are largely primitive systems because in-vivo-intelligence and in-tool processing capabilities are limited.
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But as AI systems advance, from medicine to agriculture to supply chain, we will see better solutions. The golden years of entrepreneurial capitalism are ahead, and making smarter hardware systems will unlock huge opportunities. Nvidia has returned the world back to atoms, demonstrating that before bits and bytes could advance, someone has to fire the transistors, and move the electrons.
Electrical, electronics and computer engineering will continue to lead the next wave of global innovation as technology continues to shape the future of markets, economies and industries. The EECE must help to deliver a translation where AI does not just do “soft” things, but make “hard” things better for the world. Doing that is a massive global opportunity. At Tekedia Capital, we are funding startups at this fledgling phase because upon them rests the future of the markets. This is what we fund.
Technology Shifts – From Semiconductors to AI And Wealth of Nations
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