Not any company. Every decade has a foundational technology upon which most of the economic growth of that period is based. 1987 - 1997 was the decade of the pe

Not any company. Every decade has a foundational technology upon which most of the economic growth of that period is based. 1987 - 1997 was the decade of the personal computer. 1997 - 2007 was the decade of the world wide web. 2007 - 2017 was the decade of mobile which is just starting to get mature. 2017 - 2027 will be the decade of AI / autonomy. Who will be the companies that excel at AI? The ones that can invest the most engineering dollars, and the ones that have access to large datasets for training. So I suppose you could say all tech companies with large datasets are just getting started given the growth I imagine we’ll see in the next decade. Also I’m talking about tracking someone using their face, without them interacting with any systems at all or even checking out. Sure you could do implement a simpler similar system with credit cards but people have many credit cards that change often and so it would be difficult to get an accurate full profile of an individual. By contrast Facebooks AI would be universal and would be able to look at what you ordered at Wendy’s and use that to optimize the menu that is presented to the user for optimal conversions, even if you’ve never been in a mcdonald’s before. This is nice if you’re mcdonald’s but if you’re a small restaurant it’s a game changer. I don’t even know if Facebook is working on this but you can imagine them making a lot of money offering these types of services.