Today it is Hinton & Hopfield for machine learning, and it’s rooted in Physics, even if in an abstract way.

Tomorrow, in a decade or two, it will be for decentralized technologies. Decentralization secured by cryptography is a foundational tech.

That Hinton has on multiple times expressed concerns about how concentration (ie centralization) of AI can lead to significant imbalance (which zero sum oriented valley folks don’t like), also points in the direction of why decentralization in all vital areas like finance, computation, AI etc is of critical importance in the next decade