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

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.

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

In Gartner’s hype cycle, it’s called the trough of disillusionment. In venture capital or technologist parlance, we call it deep tech.

“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

“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?”

Normally, proctoring takes days of planning and travel for just a fifteen-minute consult. This single project allowed the best specialists in the world to consult with dozens of cohorts in a day rather than just one or two a month and at a fraction of the cost.

The ability to recognize patterns in a set of noisy data is similar whether it’s through audio, images, video, electrical pulses, financial data, or many other signals. The mathematical representation of these data is called a tensor (think of it as a matrix containing other matrices).

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