Visionary Wishlist: Five tech inventions bosses would love to see in next five years
A handy, AI-powered assistant to guide you if you’re ever lost in a new country — a clip-on accessory that can identify the right path by scanning your surroundings and sharing instructions in real-time. These aren’t just flights of fancy, but real inventions debuted at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
Together they showcase the remarkable speed at which technology has developed. Keeping this in mind, five bosses share with ET Panache what inventions they would like to see developed in the next five years.
Bhavin Turakhia CEO, Zeta
“It would be great to see large language models (LLMs) operate efficiently and natively on mobile phones. Today, developing and training foundational LLMs is incredibly expensive and involves heavy computing infrastructure, data sets, techniques and algorithms requiring hundreds of experts. Plus, running an average-sized LLM requires at least 200 GB of RAM. So, condensing this entire footprint and making these LLMs accessible and affordable enough to run on a small device would involve some really thrilling technical wizardry.”
Sandeep Ghosh Group Country Manager, VISA India and South Asia
“A great piece of tech that I would love to see is something that allows you to make payments with any kind of device, not just your mobile or watch, and possibly even without a device — for example, fingerprints or a retina scan.”
Shankar Prasad Founder, Plum
“I would like to see smartphones that run on energy generated by walking or running. What if we can make
