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The Need for Speed a |
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| In prior issues, we’ve discussed the emerging category of $1 million to $2 million micro-jets and the even more exciting VTOL Skycar technology. These developments promise to bring business aviation to a whole new category of small and midsize businesses. But what’s going to happen for the elite who already spend $40 million to $100 million for Gulfstreams and Boeing Business Jets? |
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Personal Jets Disrup |
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| According to The Wall Street Journal,1 travel in private jets will triple in the next 10 years with the introduction of what is being referred to as very light jet, or VLJ, aircraft. |
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Quantum Computing Ad |
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| Many of the problems of nanotech, biotech, and anti-terrorism are so complex that today뭩 computers ?based on an architecture defined nearly 60 years ago ?can뭪 address them. However, hope is on the horizon as researchers get closer and closer to building commercially viable quantum computers. |
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They Retread Tires, |
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| It has been estimated that in seven years, as the first Baby Boomers reach retirement age, there will be 10 million more jobs than workers. By 2031, that gap could widen to 35 million. |
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Nanotech Venture Cap |
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| At the end of last year, the U.S. government committed $3.7 billion in funding to a technology that few people had even heard of a few years ago. Big corporations are investing $3 billion in it this year. And venture capital firms have poured $1 billion into small startups that focus on it over the past five years. |
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