
Aerial view of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a 110 megawatt plant near Tonopah, Utah.(Wikipedia.org)

- The awesome computing power now available at dirt cheap prices in the form of graphical processing units (GPUs) made by companies like NVIDIA
- The ultra-high-resolution imaging systems that are nowde rigueurin every smartphone camera in the developed world
- Advances in AI that allow computers to tirelessly make tiny, real-time adjustments to a mechanical process

Erik Kobayashi-Solomon(forbes.com)