Dixon: We are entering a Cambrian explosion of 10+ computers per person
Chris Dixon · a16z Podcast | The Self-Flying Camera · Jan 2, 2019 · at 20:33
Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, frames autonomous drones within the historical paradigm shifts of computing from mainframes and PCs to smartphones and ubiquitous ambient AI.
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“This is part of a broader wave, which is, if you just go back and look at the history of computing, we had the mainframes, we had sort of a one computer for every 10,000 people, or a 100,000 people, then you had PCs, sort of one for every 10 people, and then you had, ah, you know, smartphones, we now have three billion smartphones, so sort of a computer per person, or we're gonna get to that point, and now we're gonna start to see kind of 10 plus computers per person, and that means You know, computers embedded around your house, at the office, in the air, in drones, in your car, you know, VR, AR headsets. I think we're on the cusp of this kind of Cambrian explosion of computing devices.”
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