Web 3.0

Moves to bring human-like senses to computers, i.e. incorporating the addition of touch, voice, facial recognition and other technologies into our information and communication devices, are gaining ground.

In the past decade venture investors have, by and large, overlooked hardware partly because of the perception that hardware is hard and expensive, but also because fewer active VCs nowadays have a hardware-savvy background. Beginning with the dot-com boom, software has been the sexy sector, and has gradually absorbed the lion's share of capital allocation. However, below the surface, things have been changing.