Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters

For decades, the tech industry has overwhelmingly been just a software industry. Silicon Valley's big win was disrupting Yellow Cab. What about disrupting General Motors? General Mills? General Electric?

Energy, water, waste, food, manufacturing, construction-things every human on Earth relies on-have made incremental progress over the last century but have not seen the kind of exponential improvements we take for granted in computing.

Meanwhile, scientific progress continued, invention kept ...