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During the 1970s, humanity was three decades removed from the last World War, and modern medicine seemed capable of conquering one killer disease after another. The world’s birth rates and fertility rates continued their upward climb, as they had for the past seven centuries. Projecting the growth in the population, experts at the time warned of an unavoidable disaster. |
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As firms develop a peripheral nervous system composed of sensors and a central nervous system with computers that enables the firm to learn, adapt and innovate, we have to ask, “How will those firms be organized and managed to extract the maximum value from these capabilities?” |
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Oil Prices Are Poise |
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As explained in the June 2006 Trends issue, the price of oil is not up because the world is running out of oil. |
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False Alarm |
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Home Automation and |
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During the PC era, the nexus of info-tech innovation was business, especially in the office. As we enter “the post-PC era,” the nexus of innovation is shifting to the consumer, especially in the home. And this digital home is where most technological innovation will occur over the next five years in the $101 billion consumer electronics industry. |
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