Although the examples used in PG's article can be framed in a lot of different ways, I thought the general advice was pretty useful and echos much of what's bee

Although the examples used in PG's article can be framed in a lot of different ways, I thought the general advice was pretty useful and echos much of what's been said about product development in the last 5-10 years: don't sit around trying to come up with ideas--get out there and talk to people in other industries about their problems and solutions will naturally present themselves. I also thought the concept of the "sitcom idea" was really clever and dead on--I hadn't heard that one before. Re: next big markets--retail is an interesting one and it occurred to me that Walmart is going to have a RIM like crisis of its own over the next decade. E-commerce growth probably will continue as consumers grow increasingly comfortable with it, and the economics make so much more sense than building walmart's everywhere. I suppose they will start getting rid of their stores and moving to online, finding themselves looking like Amazon at the end of it, or out of business. AIs--or approximations of them--are going to be a big thing. Self driving cars--google won't be the only company that makes that software. Big data--data is important for these types of applications, someone will find that it might make sense to standardize this data and simply sell it to the various AI/something-like-it makers rather than try to do all of it. Meanwhile, AI/something-like-it startups will not want to build a fleet of vans to drive around taking pictures of everything. This is going to be a really interesting industry over the next ten years and people won't remember what they were doing before.