Whereas a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weights 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weight only 1,5 tons. Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Month: March 2007
10 Emerging Technologies for 2007
The Technology Review website released its annual list of 10 emerging technologies. What are those? According to the website’s description “10 technologies we find most exciting and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live”. Below you will find each of the 10 technologies with a direct link to the article describing it:
Innovation in Emerging Markets
What strategy should companies use to develop their products and services on emerging markets? Innovation, obviously, or so say the majority of executive across corporate boards. BusinessWeek published an article with a preview of a study by Delloit titled “Innovation in Emerging Markets”.
Innovation Links – 24/03/2007
Image: The Last Parade by Iceman. NewsCorp and NBC reveal the YouTube killer The joy of righteous indignation Samgung patents an illustrated IM client for mobile phones Ignore what customers say, watch what they do
Web 3.0?
You probably have already heard about the semantic web. It basically refers to software and online platforms that will be able to learn how the user search, collect and organize information. As a result the semantic web will be able to interact with the users and provide content in a much more intelligent way.
Innovation Quotes: Discovery, Invention and Diffusion
Innovation consists of the technological, managerial, and social processes through which a new idea or concept is first reduced to practice in a culture.
Innovation Insights 2007
Innovation Insights is an annual conference that takes a look into several innovation facets, including: sourcing strategies, globalization and innovation, tools and methods to foster innovation, core technologies and so on.
How countries compete
What makes some countries grow faster than others? Why China was able to achieve such an outstanding development over the last decade? The Harvard Working Knowledge website published an interesting interview with Richard Vietor who wrote a book called “How Countries Compete”.
Innovation Links – 18/03/2007
Image by jigsawpuzzle. Online advertising: The big 4 get bigger Free is a tactic not a business model Cisco buys WebEx 4 risk points when implementing innovation Turning traffic into profits
Innovation Timeline
There is a very interesting “Innovation Timeline” created by the What’s Next website. You will probably need to zoom the picture to read the listed innovations, but here is some of the stuff that the predict to appear before 2050: