As 2024 unfolds, and most of the world's attention is on geopolitics and elections, frontier technologies are still advancing at an exponential rate. It is becoming increasingly evident to us that by 2030 we may witness serious disruptions rather than mere transformations.

We can expect this future to be immersive, persistent, personalised, predictive, and directed as we outline below.

That is why we at EdenBase are now accelerating all our action plans and ramping up our efforts to align with our vision of a technology enabled future.

And in every area these powerful technologies are converging.

Immersive: Despite the tech world's reduced emphasis on the metaverse (a term we use for the multimodal, immersive interaction between people and technology), progress has far surpassed what was achieved in their zeitgeist years of 2021 and 2022. For instance:

• Meta, shifting its focus to AI, reportedly spent over $16 billion on immersive technology in 2024 alone, surpassing JP Morgan’s total tech expenditure.

• Disney has just invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games to become a major player in the virtual and immersive experiences world.

• Apple launched its Vision Pro, heralded by Sam Altman as the most second most significant technology launch since the iPhone.

Persistent and Personalised: With advancements in mobile connectivity, like 5G and Starlink, and the integration of AI, our devices are becoming more tailored and continuous. Rabbit introduced an AI-powered handheld device, and Brilliant Labs unveiled AI-powered glasses, enhancing user experiences. These products are the start of the more seamless, personalised, always connected device world we will soon all expect.

Predictive: ChatGPT 5, anticipated to be more intelligent and multimodal, will be capable of understanding our world and personal needs, acting like a personal assistant for both business and leisure. Microsoft has woven OpenAI technology into its Office, Outlook, and Teams applications, allowing it to read and understand our emails, calendars and documents, enabling it to suggest documents we need and email responses based on our behaviours and preferences.

We have recently explored a Quantum Computing interface product designed to simplify how conventional programmers use and engage with Quantum Computers. This interface could be considered "the ChatGPT for Quantum Computing" serving to ease access to Quantum Computing technology for anyone.  So that as these advanced computers become increasingly available, such interfacing technologies will significantly broaden their adoption. This, in turn, will enable a wide range of products to incorporate them, thereby enhancing their predictive capabilities swiftly and efficiently.

Directed: New services, such as Perplexity, leverage AI to offer concise answers to web searches, streamlining information access by eliminating lists of sites and information sources. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are also all working on similar products. This approach narrows the scope for diverse and comprehensive responses, benefiting factual queries however complicating opinion-based ones.

Investment and Infrastructure

The financial investment in technology infrastructure is continuing at unprecedented levels. With Meta open-sourcing its large language model and the Pytorch machine learning framework, licensing costs are set to decrease dramatically. Sam Altman’s initiative to raise up to $7 trillion for infrastructure investment reflects the global acknowledgment of the need for substantial funding in this area. $7 trillion is larger than the market cap of Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia combined.