John W. Koon

Orange County, California Area United States

Editor-in-Chief of the RTC / ISS

Writing / Publishing

As an editor, I have the opportunity to engage many leaders or up-and-coming future technologists to find out what matters. For example, when we did the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) topics, we interview Cisco, GE, Dell and others to feel the pulses of the industry. With autonomous cars, we get information from GM, Ford, BMW and other technology providers like NXP (now Qualcomm), Intel (partners with BMW), QNX, NVIDIA and many others. This give me a chance to learn and gain new perspective. Popular question: when will we see REAL fully-autonomous car running around? We will see many automakers testing driverless cars today as shown at the 2017 CES. To get to level 5, cars with no h...