When I was a child, an image of a future space station caught my eye. It was an artist's rendition of the inside of a giant spinning doughnut-shaped world where centrifugal force would simulate gravity. There were trees and roads and buildings. People were going about their daily lives. The part of the picture that I noticed the most was the horizon as it faded in the upward direction. As this was a picture from inside the doughnut-shaped space station, this made sense. I pictured myself living on such a space station. That image helped set in motion my lifelong interest in science and technology.
Like Peter Thiel, I thought we would have flying cars and giant rotating space stations by now. We don't. That doesn't mean that the technology of today is any less amazing. What it does mean is that predicting the future is, at best, a guess. The following scenario is my guess at what we may expect from an edge analytics future.