Chips in everything. They will have the ability to steer the process in the same way as the people who started managing steam engines and then electrical motors. In my house today I may have hundreds of electrical motors. Actually, last time I counted it was 60. They are in places you wouldn't even expect.
People never give enough thought to the amount of electrical motors they have in their houses.
The beauty of the chips is that they are actually capable of populating everything, including your milk carton and the contents of your refrigerator. But if you would have told my grandfather that his grandson would own 100 electrical motors, he wouldn't have believed it. It is the ability of the IT manager who isn't just the technology pusher, the architects of information, not the plumbers, is the role of the IT executive in the 21st century. The architect designs, looks at the economics. They need to hire in contractors, the plumbers, the excavators and so on.