"That is not only not right; it is not even wrong" - Wolfgang Pauli
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This should be VR’s moment, but instead it’s still stuck as a subset of games consoles, and that isn’t why Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus. How will that change? Do we get another VR winter?
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In January, everyone was online, and probably willing to try anything online. Now we don’t have a choice - we’re shut indoors for weeks or months. What does that means for work? Ecommerce? Health and education? And the people left behind?
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Microsoft and IBM used to dominate tech - today they’re still big companies, but no-one is scared of them anymore. That wasn’t because of anti-trust. Rather, the products that used to give them dominance stopped mattering. We still use Windows, and mainframes, but they’re not the centre of tech anymore.
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Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion every year?
Read MoreIn the last 5-6 years, machine learning has gone from ‘crazy idea from the 1980s’ to ‘software’. That has come with several waves of deployment and several waves of company creation, as we work out what do do with it. It’s the new SQL.
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There's a wave of companies trying to find new ways to make software for work, building bundles of workflows and networks that capture the spreadsheets, emails and phone calls of some industry or profession and turn them into structure, automation and time.
Read MorePhones are boring now, so how does Apple use accessories and services to expand and defend the iPhone business? And does TV matter at all?
Read MoreWe worry about face recognition just as we worried about databases - we worry what happens if they break, and we worry what happens if they work too well.
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