I'd slightly disagree with this - the real benefits from cloud are in the things you don't need to do. If you're just using the cloud as a normal datacentre (but in another location) you're not going to have a good time.

EG using a managed Database as opposed to rolling your own saves on patching, management etc...

If you're not rapidly growing and are paying millions in cloud compute, you should hire your own infra team and start managing your own database, so you can save millions of dollars.

You should check out Nano - it’s one of the few cryptocurrency systems that works for this.

Instant payment, scales well, doesn’t use a standard block system (uses a block lattice instead), doesn’t rely on mining so is extremely green.

If you’re in London I’d thoroughly recommend a drink in the Jamaica Wine House - it’s a pub in the square mile that used to be a coffee house from 1652. It’s an amazing place to see - you can really feel the age and history of the place. https://londonspubswherehistoryreallyhappened.wordpress.com/...

One of the entrances has a big stone along the bottom of the door and worn down over the years.

http://www.citypubs.co.uk/pubs/thejamaicawinehouse_pic.html

Love it. Every time I step on I can almost feel the history of the place.

City of London is amazing because of its mix of old and new, I used to work near the Jamaica Wine House and we would often go there for drinks after work. It's too bad the beer selection there is not great tho.

There is a reason it is called wine house and not beer house.

Recent BBC doc on slavery mentioned the place as the hub for doing deals on humans. So there's that to consider too as you drink in the history.

or as traders call it, the jampot

However the execution will be tricky. So far electric bike hire doesn’t appear to have succeeded that well in London (Hackney at least).

Very much hoping this works better!

Any chance on expanding on what the critical blocking tech is?

Very interesting!

> a solid state microled chip with microlenses

For someone with no knowledge about AR hardware, how is this different (from the perspective of the end user) than a traditional hololens style display?

That display type can be made bright enough to be outdoor visible while still keeping power consumption on sane levels.

The biggest problem of all waveguide systems is that they are freaking inefficient, with optics consuming 50-90%+ of all light.

And it is the same problem with pretty much all complex optical systems in AR/VR glasses.

This is why I am a proponent of using mirror optics in this application.

I wondered why google glass was canned, and I wondered if there was worries a bout liability for eyesight problems. I can imagine poorly matched AR could damage your eyes over time, in a way I suspect monitors currently do.

Great feedback - appreciate it.

I think the constant job changing is going to be really interesting one - because 1) it's already happening 2) it makes the tasks more ideally suited for eventual replacement by machines. There's a lot of people out there in regular white-collar jobs who don't want to change - it will take a lot of work to make them change their mind on that (and some simply won't).

Unless we start to manage some of these future risks I think we're going to see a number of problems. Interestingly I think the easy answer (and the one we're already seeing) will be to blame the traditional ones (immigration, other people not like us). We're already starting to see this in multiple geographies.

I'm a Managing Director in Accenture - currently running DevOps for UK & Ireland. I get a pretty unique view of projects/plans from people/companies.

I've documented roughly where I see things going over the next 5-10 years based on a number of things I'm seeing at the moment. Feel free to ask questions

At a high level they are: 1) The nature and shape of work will change dramatically 2) AI will start to make a real impact to the world in both positive and negative ways 3) Algorithmic choice will become an important thing 4) Traditional large organisations will die and the rise of the “Portfolio” company 5) Personalised health 6) 5G, LEO Satellites and the changing location of computing 7) Climate Change and why paper straws don’t matter 8) Governments, Globalisation, Nationalism, the shrinking middle, basic income and the rise of disruption