2025 Tech Trends Report SXSW

Notes from Amy Webb’s talk on tech trends

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Amy Webb Launches 2025 Emerging Tech Trend Report | SXSW LIVE

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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.

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.

SIGNAL: robots knowing how to tie a shoe (DeepMind). LI is going to start unlocking new pathways to advancements.

from 2024, the three clusters of tech trends were biotechnology, advanced sensors, and AI