Aggressive long term investment themes.

Apodemus

BrockStoker wrote: »

For example, in the last few hours Harvard researchers announced that they had managed to produce metmallic hydrogen, which it's believed is a room temp. super conductor. If this is true, it's BIG news, and will likely lead to a revolution in technology.

Quite so, but there seems to be considerable doubt about whether the Harvard researchers have actually achieved what they claim. By their own admission they have rushed to publish before confirming what they have achieved.

Also, while creating metal hydrogen would indeed be big news, there is a huge difference between achieving it in the lab at 5 million times atmospheric pressure and minus 269 degrees on the tip of a specially coated diamond anvil compared to making industrial quantities to power the next computing revolution!

greenglide

I'm not sure there is a president for what is happening in the sector

Or what hasnt happened in Sweden!

JohnRo

The big question mark around tech / robotic investment for me is whether it's likely to be the specialist companies breaking new ground and developing new tech or whether it's more likely to be the well established mega corps deploying all this new technology and robotic innovation that prove the better investment. I've little doubt both will do well.

Malthusian

Or whether tomorrow someone invents an organic, self-assembling, self-replicating goo that can intelligently but non-sentiently perform tasks on behalf of humans - in short, a non-robotic technology that makes robotics completely obsolete.

The problem is that what today looks like the great leap forward of 2050 could by 2050 be as quaint and archaic as The Jetsons, or those old exhibitions on "cities of the future". And the odds that it is actually the next great leap forward and not the next Betamax are already priced in.

JohnRo

Genetically engineered slime mould, sounds like the future. Sign me up.

Coincidentally this landed in my inbox today. The hypocrisy of Saint William is starting to grate on me.

https://mishtalk.com/2017/02/19/bill-gates-embraces-tax-robots-socialist-idiocy-four-questions-for-gates/

Malthusian

World's richest man attempts to pull up world's tallest ladder.