Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything

understanding and building a deep tech strategy is the single greatest competitive opportunity of this decade.

Machine learning is not magic; it’s just multidimensional curve fitting.

Google wants to be your guide in the real world, and their flagship augmented reality device, Google Glass, is a pure distillation of the company’s goal to “organize the world’s information.” While Glass was famously a consumer failure, it still exists for enterprise use, and the high price tag will come down over time, making it more accessible. G

“Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?” To which Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?”

“What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.” —Martin Heidegger

Ascape is one of many companies that provide 360-degree virtual experiences of famous locations from Serengeti

Beyond virtual reality, mixed reality is also a valuable tool for extending real-life experiences into the past. We can save historical sites like Pompeii from being littered with informational plaques and navigation signs, offering augmented digital information instead. It’s a new form of travel, where ancient sites may be experienced as they were

Sometimes we want to analyze clusters of data (K-means) or reduce the dimensions or features in play (manifold learning) or convert from one type of data to another (autoencoding).

Microsoft wants the middle, where you integrate the real world with virtual experiences. Like Facebook and Google, Microsoft’s play aligns deeply with its corporate culture.