The importance lays in seeking the technological shifts in a vast of potential technologies before they are revealed by the broad masses of other researchers. To excavate them, I prefer the way of retrodicting the enabler technology through the future we envision and believe:
We envision that the self-driving technology can come true, which then can change the way we travel, the lifestyle we live, and even the housing prices of the city.
We envision that the robots with deep learning algorithms can learn things like human.
We envision that we can use 20W power to achieve human-like brain capabilities.
We envision that we can back up and restore memories.
We envision that we can control the things with thoughts, rather than languages.
We envision that we can communicate our emotions with other people through brain interface.
We envision that the implanted devices can fundamentally change the way of measuring medical parameters, and elongate the human life.
With these visions in mind, I come back from US. to China Tsinghua Univeristy in 2018 to found the ARChip Lab, where I believe in vertical research methodologies from algorithms, architecture down to chips.
I also believe that to realize these visions, we needs both efforts from industry and academia. And those explorations with long efforts are better to be done in universities.
If you believe in similar visions, you are welcome to join us !
Let's work together to build a better world !