The first stage in a technologys advance is that itll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if its successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration. – Chris Anderson
And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn. – Chris Anderson
And whats interesting about the hybrids taking off is youve now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. Its the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years. – Chris Anderson
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle