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Futurists 50 years ago were projecting a 20-hour work week in the United States and Western Europe by the dawn of the 21st century. In most developed nations, their predictions have proven directionally correct: total work time has moved downward. |
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The Media Transforma |
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To understand where we’re going, it helps to understand where we’ve been. If you bought a new car 10 years ago, it came standard with a cassette deck, but a CD player was a somewhat expensive option. If you buy a new car today, it comes standard with a high-end CD player, but a cassette tape deck is an expensive and almost useless option. The cassette tape, which revolutionized the way we listen to and share music with others, is dead. |
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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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Share the Wealth |
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Because it is becoming increasingly challenging to protect intellectual property, we’re witnessing a complete reversal: Instead of protecting new ideas and proprietary systems, some developers are now making them available to customers, suppliers, and even competitors. |
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지구촌 소비의 새로운 패턴 |
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인구, 기술, 사이코그래픽스(psychographics, 수요조사 목적으로 소비자의 행동 양식, 가치관 등을 심리학적으로 측정하는 기술)의 흐름이 세계 경제의 소비 패턴을 새로운 형태로 바꾸기 위해 한곳으로 집중되고 있다. 이번 금융 위기는 지금까지 수십 년 동안 알고 있었던 경제 상황과 전혀 새로운 상황을 구분 짓는 경계선처럼 보인다. 어떤 변화가 일어나고 있는가? 국가와 기업, 개인은 이러한 변화에 어떻게 대응해야 할까? |
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