The only companies named in the article are Google, Apple, and GM. What's "big on the horizon" for tech and auto companies? Autonomous transportation. After "h

The only companies named in the article are Google, Apple, and GM. What's "big on the horizon" for tech and auto companies? Autonomous transportation. After "horse-and-sun-powered agrarian economy" and "electricity-and-motor-powered industrial economy" and "silicon-based information economy", it seems we're going to "automation-based service economy".