Here's a list of 7 disruptive technologies in order of magnitude. Any of these little beauties could be worth a trillion or more dollars. These are hot technologies which are exploding right now. Most of these technologies are; either already huge industries or they are booming (AI) or just before the early adoption phase (Driverless Vehicles).
Please feel free to skip to the end and read the linked article from Singularity Hub.
#1.) Deep Learning
Deep learning might surprise some people as being the #1 growth market predicted. How is this possible?! Well Deep Learning in this case can be seen as an enabling technology. Humans and intelligence are increasingly being uncoupled, highlighted by the fact that your phone is "smart". As the cost of intelligence goes down, new services and products become viable such as Driverless Vehicles.
If steemit.com is a big flaky crispy bread bowl full of cheese, Deep Learning is like your silverware, napkin and utensils. Facebook has made alot of its money by simply collecting, annotating, compiling and referencing massive datasets. Those datasets are the "lessons" so to speak we use to train a Deep Learning AI. So the fact that rational actors on the Steemit platform by definition must be VERY different from the rational actors on a primarily stakeless network - makes the study of us $$$$$$ money.
#2.) Driverless Vehicles
Siiiiiick. I will definitely be naming mine Winston in reference to Batman.
But seriously as demand for standardized sensors, computation and components has increased effects of economics-at-scale kick in. As costs and prices for sensors computation and components fall, heres is the counter balance. A product-at-scale that needs between 1-12 of each and every high tech sensor lidar mems radar and more. Lots of companies in these industries that specialize in components that are becoming ubiquitous. $$$$
#3.) 3D Printing
3D printing has been suffering from serious design constraints for awhile. The community has kind of suffered from overhype. It's like Bitcoin back when it first hit $100 and quickly blasted off to $1200.
There are several companies out there who are either redefining what it means to 3D print : like printing houses for example, or 3D printing in space; and then there are companies who are trying to break some limiting factor or design constraint. There will be enabling breakthroughs coming here and ONCE they happen theres really no telling when or how fast this tech will blow up. $$$$$
#4.) CRISPR
From the article: "“You can see if a company in this space has a strong IP position, as Genentech did in 1980, then the growth rates can be enormous,”
If you are not familiar with CRISPR its a methodology of genetic engineering that is relatively new, extremely inexpensive, highly accurate and very easy to use. We will see replicator speed 3D printing but that won't be until long long long after we have desktop prosumer genetic engineering.
#5.) Mobile Transactions
WTF mobile transactions huh?
#6.) Robotics and Automation
Seriously we need basic income STAT. M2M machine to machine economy where the actuator designer, the visual systems programmer and the smart contract developer get together and collaborate : they produce some useful robot that can then go on about its business indefinitely, without ownership doing its intended job, earning money for repairs, paying its taxes (to basic income of course) and creators. Creators don't HAVE to make benevolent, civic, tax paying robots but they could. If the robot isn't perceived as benevolent though ... who knows how long its life cycle will be?
#7.) Cryptoassets
Boooooooooyakasha heres where Jason Dorrier name drops Steem. What a guy he mentions Bitcoin, Ethereum and Steem.
Singularity Hub, Jason Dorrier https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/16/the-disruptive-technologies-about-to-unleash-trillion-dollar-markets/
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