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Web 2.0 Ushers in a |
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| Every well-known technology goes through predictable stages. In the beginning, an exciting new technology grabs people��셲 attention and pumps up their expectations to impossible levels. Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and individual investors chase the dream of massive returns, and they throw their money behind questionable business plans. |
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The Massively-Connec |
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| One of the world��셲 most powerful technologies is as tiny as a grain of rice. An RFID tag that can be implanted under the skin was approved in November, 2004. Just over a year later, more than 1,000 people have had them implanted in the procedure that takes just five minutes. |
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The Biogenerics Mark |
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| Everyone is familiar with generic drugs that were once proprietary. As soon as the patent runs out, companies rush in with their version of a popular drug. |
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Location-Based Techn |
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| When General Motors introduced OnStar in some of its Cadillac models in 1996, it was pioneering an industry known as location-based services ?or LBS. Because of the existence of global positioning satellites that can triangulate the position of a GPS transmitter anywhere in the world, GM had the idea that roadside assistance and other services could be delivered to drivers in their cars on a subscription basis. |
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Here Come the Singul |
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| A central theme underlying all of the analysis we do here at Trends is the realization that the rate of change is constantly increasing ?and it萸� been doing so in a measurable way for at least the past 500 years. |
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