The future of #digitalTransformation is going from "bits" to "atoms"- 36 Game Changing Startups and Emerging Tech | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The past few decades have seen unprecedented levels of innovation, especially in what Peter Thiel calls the world of “bits,” or software, internet, and mobile technology.

According to Thiel, however, there’s a sense that the tech space “could be doing so much more,” especially in what he calls the world of “atoms” or efforts to create things like new forms of energy, medicine, and transport — spaces that tend to be costly and challenging to tackle, but also potentially transformative.