Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Predict The Future

Last week, Churchill Club sponsored its annual "Top Tech Trends" event in Silicon Valley. The event brings together the region's best and brightest venture capitalists, who deliver their predictions for the future of the tech space.

At last year's event, Draper Fisher Jurvetson's prediction was dubbed the winner for his description of a "Skynet economy" in which the entire globe would have access to broadband.

Robocar

At this year's event, the audience elected Jurvetson as the winner again, this time for his prediction that robocars would be the next big thing.

Robocars, Jurvetson said, are cars that operate autonomously and transport people wherever they want to go. He believes that these cars will be safer and more fuel efficient than today's automobiles, and according to companies like Tesla Motors Inc TSLA and Google Inc GOOGGOOGL, which already have driverless car technology in the works, they could become a reality in the next decade.

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Computers That Read Your Mind

Sherpa Ventures Managing Director Shervin Pishevar also had a promising vision; he said that he expects to see computers that can predict a user's intent.

Pishevar believes that developers will eventually work out how to deliver information at the speed of thought and give people what they want before they've ever expressed it.

Women Developers

Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Venture Fund, said she sees women becoming more interested in computer science, something presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said she hopes to encourage if she is elected into office.

The field is dominated by men at the moment, but Lynn said she sees women beginning to gravitate towards the field in the future as it offers a great deal of flexibility and would give working mothers a way to balance their career with their home-life.

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