10 Thoughts on the Future of Innovation From Boston 2034
Summary
At our Boston 2034 conference on Tuesday, we brought together a big group of distinguished technology and business leaders to discuss where New England—and the world—are heading in the next two decades.Steve Kaufer of TripAdvisor: “No one said I couldn’t.” He was talking about the perception that it’s hard to build a big, successful consumer-tech company in Boston.Assaf Biderman from MIT and Superpedestrian: Data and analytics from mobile phones and sensors will transform the infrastructure of cities, starting with transportation.Dukach, the head of Techstars Boston: The physical location of people is becoming less important because of Web and mobile technologies, so rules and structures based around geography will be disrupted.Alfred Spector from Google: Think about the huge amount of computing power that will be applied to problems in artificial intelligence, user interfaces, autonomous systems, and education.