I increasingly think we're underestimating what's ahead. Two years ago was an opinion piece from NIST on the impact optoelectronics would bring specifically to

I increasingly think we're underestimating what's ahead. Two years ago was an opinion piece from NIST on the impact optoelectronics would bring specifically to neural networks and AGI, and watching as nearly every major research institution has collectively raised probably half a billion for AI photonics plays through their VC partnerships or internal resource allocations on the promise of order of magnitude improvements much closer than something like quantum computing, I think we really haven't seen anything yet. We're probably just at the very beginning of this curve, not approaching its diminishing returns. And that's both very exciting and terrifying. After decades in tech (including having published a prediction over a decade ago that mid 2020s would see roles shift away from programming towards emergence of specialized roles for knowing how to ask AI to perform work in natural language) I think this is the sort of change so large and breaking from precedent we really don't know how to forecast it.