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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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China"s Filtere |
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| While Web 2.0 is already transforming the way people live and work in the U.S., China is still struggling to absorb the impact of the most basic form of the Internet. E-mail, chat rooms, message boards, and Web sites all provide ways for people to communicate instantly and openly. As a result, the Internet represents both an opportunity for its growing economy, and a threat to its political stability. |
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