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What is the next boom? I honestly can’t think of one. Feels like we are just at the Age of the Plateau, which will be quite painful for markets and the world.

alanbernstein 1y ago
Humanoid robotics
- chriskanan 1y ago
  This will be huge in the next decade and powered by AI. There are so many competitors, currently, that it is hard to know who the winners will be. Nvidia is already angling for humanoid robotics with its investments.
- mtmail 1y ago
  and skynet
  - alanbernstein 1y ago
    Not THAT kind of boom
- mdaniel 1y ago
  relevant: Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456904 - July, 2025 (97 comments)
debesyla 1y ago
As all the previous booms - hard to predict before it happens. And if we do predict, high chances are that we will miss. My personal guess is something in the medical field, because surely all the AI search tools could help to detect common items in all the medical data. Maybe more of ozempyc, maybe for some other health issue. (Of course, who knows. Maybe it turns out that the next boom is going to be in figuring out ways to make things go boom. I hope not.)
xeromal 1y ago
It's just because we can't know what the next boom is until it hits us in the face except for a tiny population of humans that effect those changes
thebruce87m 1y ago
VLM / VLA.
tmtvl 1y ago
I'm gonna predict biotech. Implanted chips that let you interact with LLMs directly with your brain. Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor. Fully hands-free videoconferencing on the go. As with blockchain and current LLMs, not something I fancy spending any time with, but people will call it the next step towards some kind of tech utopia.
- thfuran 1y ago
  >Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor You've been able to do that relatively cheaply for at least a decade. Nobody really does because the market for even minor surgeries that can essentially be replaced by having a pocket is pretty small. Implanted neural interfaces have a lot of technical challenges that I think make them extremely unlikely as purely elective procedures in anything like the immediate future. AR glasses are way more plausible.
bgnn 1y ago
Jensen id betting on two technologies: integrated silicon photonucs, aka optical compute + communication (realistic bet), and Quantum computing (moonshot bet).
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alanbernstein 1y ago

Humanoid robotics

chriskanan 1y ago
This will be huge in the next decade and powered by AI. There are so many competitors, currently, that it is hard to know who the winners will be. Nvidia is already angling for humanoid robotics with its investments.
mtmail 1y ago
and skynet
- alanbernstein 1y ago
  Not THAT kind of boom
mdaniel 1y ago
relevant: Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456904 - July, 2025 (97 comments)

debesyla 1y ago

As all the previous booms - hard to predict before it happens. And if we do predict, high chances are that we will miss. My personal guess is something in the medical field, because surely all the AI search tools could help to detect common items in all the medical data. Maybe more of ozempyc, maybe for some other health issue. (Of course, who knows. Maybe it turns out that the next boom is going to be in figuring out ways to make things go boom. I hope not.)

xeromal 1y ago

It's just because we can't know what the next boom is until it hits us in the face except for a tiny population of humans that effect those changes

thebruce87m 1y ago

VLM / VLA.

tmtvl 1y ago

I'm gonna predict biotech. Implanted chips that let you interact with LLMs directly with your brain. Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor. Fully hands-free videoconferencing on the go. As with blockchain and current LLMs, not something I fancy spending any time with, but people will call it the next step towards some kind of tech utopia.

thfuran 1y ago
>Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor You've been able to do that relatively cheaply for at least a decade. Nobody really does because the market for even minor surgeries that can essentially be replaced by having a pocket is pretty small. Implanted neural interfaces have a lot of technical challenges that I think make them extremely unlikely as purely elective procedures in anything like the immediate future. AR glasses are way more plausible.

bgnn 1y ago

Jensen id betting on two technologies: integrated silicon photonucs, aka optical compute + communication (realistic bet), and Quantum computing (moonshot bet).

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