PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is looking for the next big thing. He spoke with WGBH's Innovation Hub about the why he's focusing less on the online world, and more on the physical world in his search for what's next.
“I would like us to go back to the 1950s or '60s understanding of technology as encompassing both atoms and bits. And the hope is that we’re going to have progress in both in the decades ahead,” says Thiel, author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.
Ground transportation, for example, hasn’t changed much since the Model T started rolling off the assembly line, but Thiel sees hope with developments like Google’s self-driving car – which is dependent on both virtual and real world innovations.
Read more on the Innovation Hub blog.
