Technology
What comes next in technology
Beyond the hype cycle: the quiet infrastructure bets that will define the next decade.
Every era misidentifies its own revolution while it is happening. Talking to researchers, founders and infrastructure engineers, a calmer picture of the next decade emerges — less spectacle, more plumbing.
Intelligence moves to the edge
The defining shift is not bigger models but smaller ones running locally — on phones, laptops and factory floors. When inference is cheap and private, software starts assuming intelligence the way it once assumed connectivity.
Energy becomes the bottleneck
Ask chip designers what keeps them up and they will say power, not transistors. The next breakthroughs will be measured in watts per useful task, and the winners will be whoever makes capability affordable to run.
Revolutions rarely arrive wearing capes; they arrive as a ten-times-cheaper API.
The boring stack gets interesting
Databases, identity, payments, logistics — the unglamorous layers are being rebuilt with modern tooling. Revolutions rarely arrive wearing capes; they arrive as a ten-times-cheaper API.
