Speculative Artefact:
In 2030, a special chronic diseases has become the major health problem for most of the popularity. People has to go to hospital frequently to for physical examination and treatment. Maybe a specially designed mirror with AI and AR technology to detect health problems and track the health condition of human body will be created. With this intelligent mirror, users can take physical examination at home instead of wasting too much time going to hospital. Different from traditional sports watch to detect just the heartbeat or so, our product scan human body entirely to generate a more detailed report of users’ health condition. Users can use the mirror whenever they needed to keep track of their health condition while the data is stored in databases for reference to have a better understanding of the tread of their body condition for recent one week, month or year.
Questions:
1.While the Hype Cycles describes the five key phases of a technology’s life cycle in a very convincing way, why do many investors still choose to invest in a technology at the very beginning stage?
2.As the reading says “A broad cone leaves you with a lot of uncertainty, but uncertainty is a friend, for its bedfellow is opportunity”, but the uncertainty may be seen as adding difficulties to forecasting. Do these two statements conflict with each other?