2025 Tech Trends Report SXSW
Notes from Amy Webb’s talk on tech trends
2025 Tech Trends Report SXSW
Key Insights
Sensor networks are evolving AI from OBSERVER to CONTROLLER.
AI & biology merge to make matter programmable and life reprogrammable.
Microscopic machines will give us power over nature.
SIGNAL: robots knowing how to tie a shoe (DeepMind). LI is going to start unlocking new pathways to advancements.
Spermbots for impregnation
Should you allow engineered mircoorganisms to run your supply chain in the future?
Metamaterials - engineered materials with properties that aren’t found in nature, created through precise micro structural design. They can bend light or sound, they don’t follow the rules of physics.
Rice made from cow genes??? Proteins & carbohydrates in one bite using AlphaFold
These AI “agents” still have to rely on communicating in human languages. Because human language relies on so much context, it can often be messy and inaccurate. Human languages slows AI down. But, if we use mathematics as a language instead, then they are able to communicate 3x faster.