[airstrike]

> I expect the true market crushers of the next two decades to be companies that are willing to venture into doing something that few would bet their professional lives on: applying the data flywheel to the world of atoms. That can range from defense tech, to biotech, from space tech, to robotics, from consumer hardware, to anything in between.

The real world is cruel in a way that the virtual world of software isn't. A lot of people have tried to solve physical problems with "more data" but reality requires orders of magnitude more data than we are able to process today. That's why we don't have robots with fine motor skills. We would need a revolution in computing to be able to tackle that problem. And sometimes, like in the case of Theranos, there just isn't sufficient information in the input the size of a drop of blood to get the kind of outputs we wished we could.

For now, we're relegated to automating processes between physical things, because that is something that can be mapped to our current computing abilities. You can automate a warehouse to some degree, you can automate assembly lines, but you can't automate the final organic touches.

Not to mention all the materials science breakthroughs that we also need for a variety of so-called revolutionary applications we can imagine today.