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Mending a Broken Hea |
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| Worldwide, about 23 million people have heart attacks each year. Half of them die within five years. In the United States alone, heart failure costs $40 billion a year. |
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The Coming Global Wa |
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| As we��셶e discussed, America must confront such issues as the fifth wave and the rise of global powers like China, with its mammoth population of cheap workers, its vast hoards of cash, and its urgent agenda for acquiring the resources to make it an economic superpower. |
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Nutrition Deferred |
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| Today, much of the world remains malnourished, despite the increasing availability of technological solutions to the problem. What we��셶e done is defer nutrition for hungry people because of widespread fear of genetically modified foods. |
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The Great Global Con |
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| Most companies rely on about 14 percent of the world萸� population ?the consumers with per capita spending power of $10,000 per year or greater ?to drive their revenues. Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future, growth in the population of affluent developed economies like the U.S., Japan, and the EU will be stagnant or declining. Fortunately, another 1.5 billion consumers will 諛팵erge?over the next five years, representing the largest consumption boom in human history. |
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The New Technology B |
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| There��셲 no question that 2004 was a tremendous year for the consumer electronics industry. Total shipments of U.S. consumer electronic products climbed 11 percent for the year, to $113.5 billion, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. And 2005 is expected to be even bigger, with another 11 percent increase predicted by the association. |
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