| Top Tech Guru Forecasts a Gigantic "Reboot" for Market Going Mainstream Knowles’ 1964 paper on what became known as Moore’s Law dynamics actually preceded Moore by a year. Future advances will come from three dimensional devices, and the move to carbon in the form of nanotubes and graphene already being explored at TSMC (TSM), the world’s leading foundry in Taiwan. At Motorola, Knowles spearheaded the movement to automated wire bonding of microchips on printed circuit boards that still prevails in the industry. Then he left to form Metrologics, where over the next 40 years he pioneered and perfected the triggered hand-held omnidirectional laser bar code scanner, saw it conquer the world, and followed it with the first mini-slot barcode scanner. Now one of our companies, is attempting to replace Knowles’ scanners with radio frequency ID tags (RFID). In conjunction with face recognition technology, Amazon “Go” stores hope RFID and other tools can lead in a seamless in-and-out experience at retail without any need to stop at a counter. As Knowles told an interviewer at his Auburn University alma mater in 2008: “In the pursuit of success you will fail many, many times. You need to love what you do from dawn to dusk to pick up the pieces and put the next day together with the kind of enthusiasm it takes.” If Knowles’ move into the Shaker house across the way signaled the move of the US economy from finance to electronics, perhaps we can prophesize the future by exploring the biography of the new buyers of the house. Their names are Krishna and Muirih Yeshwant. Both are physicians, and Krishna also has a degree in computer science from Stanford and is part of a new business development team at Google Ventures. Yeshwant has moved from launching companies in data interchange (sold to HP) and network security (sold to Symantec) to a stream of biotech ventures. Krishna epitomizes the new frontier of information theory in the life sciences, where most of the successes are accomplished by people who, like Shannon himself, grasped the affinities between computer and biogenetic codes. I hope to learn much from the Yeshwants for future prophecies. Regards,  George Gilder Editor, Gilder's Daily Prophecy |
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