Technology Timeline
British Telecom futurology guru Ian Pearson has convinced me that we need to think not only of concepts and methods.
In a time of rapid technology change and other technology-related development trends, we need to have a view on(an understanding of) what is coming and how it may change the way we know business. Pearson has co-authored an excellent book called “Business 2010” – read it and start wondering.
At BT he and his colleagues have built a wonderful graphical interface to show you what they mean!
The Technology Timeline supports my point that we may not get much guidance about the future of a certain market by looking backwards, not even into the immediate past. It teaches us to keep a critical distance to the sources about and from the past (which is all sources, by definition!).
Important Technology Change: the next Industrial Revolution
For ther near future, I recommend that you get acquainted with nanotechnology, which represents the next industrial revolution: it will greatly affect and change the scientific and technological base of almost any industry or sector. I have made my own Nano-blog, as have many other good bloggers. Use your RSS feed reader to find them. Or use my Nano-Rollyo to search good nano-sites.
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