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What’s being developed?

November 12th, 2009 Inder No comments

Printing Press

Innovation and inventions impact society — sometimes even shifting power in unpredictable ways.   The printing press helped spread the Reformation.  Gunpowder permitted the rise of hundred-thousand-person armies.  What are modern technologies leading to, right now?

How are laws changing in the face of technological development?  How are rights being affected?

How are companies seeking to out-maneuver each other in the marketplace with new technologies?

What battles are being waged in boardrooms, policy meetings and inventors’ labs for relevance in an increasingly wired age?

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