Last week, Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest venture capital firms in the World, and possibly the most iconic and influential, published a vision blog post titled “The biggest company in the World.”
It starts out like this:
"We think the biggest company in the world will be a consumer health tech company."
They go on to envision why and how:
"Fast forward fifty years, what could this full stack care delivery behemoth look like? It could be a company delivering 90% of healthcare, all through smartphones. This company would allow you to access the world’s best doctors through your phone, integrating human- and software-driven diagnostics, therapeutics, and medication delivery. Hospitals would still exist for surgery and certain diagnostics and treatment, and home health workers would deliver some physical care. But for most healthcare, you’d hop on your phone, just like we do today for 90% of personal finance or commerce (a new norm which itself may have seemed like science fiction twenty years ago)."
Yes, that sounds plausible. But are current smartphones, with their structural hyper-complexity and vulnerabilities, able to become the trusted client interface to such hyper-critical AI-powered e-health services and wearables?
Maybe, starting from millions of the wealthiest, we'll all eventually have a dedicated 2nd standalone ultra-thin mobile device embedded in the back of our smartphones (accountable to an international neutral body) that will provide the necessary and radically higher privacy and integrity for such hyper-critical services - and then also do the same for sensitive communications, and social and financial interactions.
The company that will make such a device may become the exclusive gateway to all of that. Such a company would not belong in private hands. It should *bindingly* eventually be owned by a neutral democratic inter-governmental body, as per the "spin-in" model.
We are working precisely on that at TRUSTLESS.AI.
