Peaks of Technologies

In the early 19th century mechanical engg. was at its peak and then slowly electronics took over. Definitely its computers now and the peak of optical computer and then finally quantum computers and physics again will have its peak. It is always advisable to be at the rising edge of the peak so that when the technology reaches its peak we will be experts by then and our profession will be in demand. Also we need to make sure that our field is so vast that we shall not get bored working in that field throughout our life. So its a big decision choosing ones field of interest. Some of the current peaks in technologies are wireless networks. But as I said we don’t want to be at the peak but at the rising edge of the peak. Artificial Intelligence and Computer vision are on the rising edges of the peak. U will not be surprised to see the number of companies increasing in these fields. Genetic algorithms are at the bottom of the rising edge and will take another 20yrs to mature so we don’t want to do that either.

Wavelets is vast field..used in DSP..seismology, chemistry, statistics, astronomy, economics, computer vision, graphics...the possibilities are endless. So even if u get bored in one field u can move on to different field of applications of wavelets. That’s why I choose image processing and wavelets. I have the option of going back to DSP or Computer vision or AI anytime without much difficulty because all these fields are closely linked. So I would suggest you taking a project with Image Processing/ Wavelets.