Topic

Future

A collection of 14 issues

Fullstacks of the Automotive World

As I wrote in the previous article, owning the full stack in the digital world has it's own benefits. But doing that within the automotive industry is going to be hard. First, let's understand what full-stack means in the automotive world. There are at least 4 dimensions to it Vehicle

What comes after Apps?

Apps are everywhere. We have had them for around 20+ years. We just used different names; application, desktop applications, web apps, apps etc. The iPhone just accelerated the usage by introducing the first "real" smartphone. Now we have had apps for a while now. And in the meanwhile we've had

State of Automotive Software and Electronics

Here’s a brief look into the last 70 years of development within the realm of automotive systems and some thoughts on where it’s headed. A look in to the past The first kind of electronics that made its way into a car were the most simple kind. Lamps,

Accumulating Thoughts

On average we have about 6000 thoughts everyday. What if we could record, track and classify all those thoughts. And feed it into a giant neural network to make a virtual version of yourself. Writing, speaking, drawing, tweets, vlogs and all other forms of “content” we create are

Flynn Effect

The Flynn Effect is the increase of intelligence test scores over the 20th century. The IQ measure is measured around 100 and their standard deviation on either sides. Over the years, the mean is adjusted based on the sample population and it is observed that the mean shifts upwards a

Genetically Engineered Products

All products that are aiming for a sizable market has to be generalized to some extent. To make it efficient to create, distribute and market the product it was essential that the product appealed to the masses. Having minimum variability was key to optimise the business as a whole. Take

Keyboard First

We spend a lot of time on laptops and computers, maybe as part of work or for leisure. There are a limited number of ways in which you can interact with it. You can type, use a mouse or a touchpad, talk to it, use gestures. Out of these the

Product Studios

Product studios is a 21st century ecosystem that supports creativity and innovation. They could be the next step for the startup world. With apps available now that makes it easy to build applications, websites and services using intuitive and graphical tools the cost for trying something out has gone down.

Context and AI

AI and ML techniques have made big leaps this year. With AlphaFold solving the protein folding problem to the GPT3 engine that can solve most text related problems using its language model. Computer vision techniques have improved as well. All these research has some drivers behind it. And usually these