Can the technology industry continue innovating?
Three trends are enabling something unique. There is Moore’s Law; mass collaboration, via increased connectivity; and the recognition that we need a new global paradigm of sustainability. When these come together, it creates the opportunity for innovation.
Moore’s Law is a competitive challenge and we have to work beyond it. Our smart grid research takes better advantage of renewables to make consumers prosumers, using and generating electricity for individual homes and nationally, storing energy for a more efficient, resilient grid. It is a brilliant example of IoT and swarm intelligence, where you optimize for 500,000 homes in a sustainable way.
“Economists are fixated on productivity but what really drives growth is innovation”.
Dr. Martin Curley, VP and Director Intel Labs Europe, Intel Corporation
What’s the timeline for this kind of disruption?
The technology is there. The question is whether we are ready to embrace it. It is about figuring out the best combination of technology, usage and business model to make systems viable on a very large scale. The overarching approach to move these technologies into the mainstream is open innovation. We are trying to bring together stakeholders around a common vision to prototype and pilot these technologies and get them disrupted
