Trends Issue: January 2012
Digitization Enables the Deep Transfo...
As explained in prior issues, the United States now stands at the beginning of the Deployment phase of the fifth...
published on: Jan 6, 2012
Fast, Low-Cost Human Genomes Will Tra...
Nowhere has the impact of digitization been more profound than in the field of genomics. In roughly a dozen years,...
published on: Jan 6, 2012
50 Billion Internet Devices by 2020
The World Wide Web has transformed our lives in amazing ways. For consumers, however, most of that impact involves...
published on: Jan 6, 2012
China Struggles to Control Its Collap...
As the Trends editors have long argued, China's apparent success has been propped up by unsustainable...
published on: Jan 6, 2012
Off-Shoring Comes Full Circle
Outsourcing and off-shoring were major growth trends of the past two decades. Technology and globalization made the...
published on: Jan 6, 2012
Bypassing Wall Street
Bankers, rating agencies, and venture capitalists exist to provide funding to businesses and individuals. In the...
published on: Jan 6, 2012