Why now-tech matters more than next-tech

If you have had even a remote interest in following what went on in Austin last week, it's likely you will have come across that sentiment expressed somewhere. Even the SXSW organisers were, grudgingly, admitting that there was no new tech or app grabbing the headlines. In 2015, Meerkat stole the show, possibly forcing Twitter to accelerate the launch of Periscope, its own live-streaming video app. In 2009, there was Foursquare and SXSW 2007 saw the explosion of Twitter. Hiroshi Ishiguro brought his personal clone Geminoid android, while Hanson Robotics had their'Sophia' join the panel discussion on extreme robotics.