A good part: Suggestion that there may be a lot more emphasis in social media on real time video. E.g., some bros in several cities watch the NBA playoffs 'together' except can't ask to pass a brewski and the chips and dip.
Not so good: For Silicon Valley interested in valuable innovations, there was a lot of emphasis on the economy as a whole. Sure, maybe for a while some entrepreneurs or companies got big financial returns basically taking existing US/EU/Japan tech into countries that were still short on running water. Maybe. But that's not really a Silicon Valley thing.
I believe that the big thing missing was innovation. That is, the report was similar to the common statement of about 1900 that all the big discoveries in physics were done with. Well, the report gave too little weight to what innovation there could be in the next 10 years. I.e., the report placed much more emphasis on population and GDP growth than innovation growth.
Part of the report turned me off: There was a lot of emphasis on digital electronics in cars. I have a car, for all the reasons people have wanted cars for a long time. I do like the digital electronics for management of fuel mixture and ignition timing. Otherwise, I want NOTHING in my car digital -- I don't want to use it, pay for it, or pay to maintain it. Besides, the US car industry is not up to doing a good job with digital in the design and manufacturing, and the maintenance part of the car industry is in much less good shape with digital.
Digital was great to replace typewriters, ..., and bring us the Internet, but I see nothing I want from digital in a car. The car that is $1 cheaper and has as little digital as possible is the one I will buy.
Not so good: For Silicon Valley interested in valuable innovations, there was a lot of emphasis on the economy as a whole. Sure, maybe for a while some entrepreneurs or companies got big financial returns basically taking existing US/EU/Japan tech into countries that were still short on running water. Maybe. But that's not really a Silicon Valley thing.
I believe that the big thing missing was innovation. That is, the report was similar to the common statement of about 1900 that all the big discoveries in physics were done with. Well, the report gave too little weight to what innovation there could be in the next 10 years. I.e., the report placed much more emphasis on population and GDP growth than innovation growth.
Part of the report turned me off: There was a lot of emphasis on digital electronics in cars. I have a car, for all the reasons people have wanted cars for a long time. I do like the digital electronics for management of fuel mixture and ignition timing. Otherwise, I want NOTHING in my car digital -- I don't want to use it, pay for it, or pay to maintain it. Besides, the US car industry is not up to doing a good job with digital in the design and manufacturing, and the maintenance part of the car industry is in much less good shape with digital.
Digital was great to replace typewriters, ..., and bring us the Internet, but I see nothing I want from digital in a car. The car that is $1 cheaper and has as little digital as possible is the one I will buy.