Greetings Robert; me thinks your distillation of the article is applied well. We are entering a bold new era of applied technology. In the coming wave there will be several distinct classes of innovations which might include or be grouped as follows;
1. Applications of systems to new uses for the purpose of improving performance & connectedness of last generation products and methods.
2. Applications of New Materials to replace old materials that we've come to know as environmentally unsound or wasteful in their application & utilization of energy, space, and labor.
3.As the history of the PC /internet shows, these have become baseline system for accounting & communications,as a platform, upgraded to a level where world wide economic actions are easily monitored, and enabled.
4.Next wave innovations will revolutionize energy, construction, and performance of devices which can be plugged into this network changing the way the world looks and works.
5. This essentially allows for the further decentralization of the economics of human action.
6. Culture will be something that happens after you go to work, there will be networked paradigm and a local one, where you can attempt to have a life within your cultural context yet be fully connected to the world wide work flow enabled by the last few decades innovations.
7. Devices designed to improve the efficiency and productivity of the network itself will fuel innovation & productivity. Sensors to see, feel and touch the interaction of humans in their local environment will fuel world wide growth.
8. Says LAW of Comparative advantage will dictate the shifting of work to the places where labor and material can be most efficiently deployed.
9. Space will extend the options of the entreprenuer beyond terra firma. To Include the depths of the seas off every coastline to the orbit of factories extending the possibilities for improving the well being of all of us.
10. Parallel revolutions have occured in the Life Sciences & other fields like energy, i.e. the Human Genome project, these will contribute to parallel extensible revolutions in bringing better health and welfare to populations everywhere.
The last 30 years, should become the foundation for the next hundred years, only our imaginations will limit our success in meeting the challenges of all of us on this big blue marble and beyond. |
