The original call
Original year: 2014
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Hit
Hit. Individual-animal monitoring went from novelty to commodity. Wearable sensors, rumination collars, ear-tag biometrics, and image-based health monitoring are now ordinary tools across modern livestock operations. The idea that you would have a real-time, animal-by-animal view of health and behavior, well beyond a GPS dot on a map, is no longer a futurist’s slide. It is a product category.