This is the 35th year of Autodesk and AutoCAD, and in the past year I have exchanged emails with the founder of Autodesk, John Walker. I asked John about the beginnings of Autodesk and also asked about what he sees in the future of technology given that he was at the beginning of the wave of PCs back in the 80s and took big risks on several early technology including one that became the most used CAD in the world changing the design world, AutoCAD.
Here is John’s answer to one of my questions in email this time looking forward from his own perspective.
Shaan: What innovations in technology are you most excited about today?
John Walker: Notwithstanding all of the hype and over-promising, I believe the promise of additive manufacturing is still greater than many people
appreciate. I think we’re at about the 1982 personal computer level
of impact of this technology: it’s finding serious applications in
large companies with deep pockets, but the mass market is still
largely closed to the…