I know Mayor Bloomberg did not use the 21st century word “crowdsourcing” this past July in his innovation initiative speech. He talked instead in old-speak, about providing “infrastructure upgrades” and enabling a “critical mass” of talent to allow New York City to reclaim “our title as the world capital of technological innovation.” For those sleeping…
I’m going to go out on a limb here with a prediction. The energy world will look exactly the same the day after October 28th, 2011, as it did yesterday. Why? On October 28th we’re expecting a public demonstration of a “revolutionary” new energy device in Bologna, Italy. The magic technology? Another too-cheap-to-meter construct called…
While the encomiums to Steve Jobs are now history, there remains a lingering question that inevitably swirls around such a man, and company. Will America ever see another iconic industrialist like Steve Jobs? Another Apple? Some one, some company, some thing that will spur another boom? Even another period of “irrational exuberance?”
A prediction. The Ohio Valley is on track to become a hotbed of innovation. And one which will almost certainly focus on 21st century manufacturing. The catalyst for this seemingly counter-intuitive claim? Money. Black gold. Ohio is about to be awash in both.
The electric grid of the future? In a word, smarter. The smarter electric grid is interactive. It knows what power you need, when and where, and what flavor you’d prefer; green, or cheap, or both if possible. It is adaptive, balancing the difficult-to-manage peaks in demand arising from the normal diurnal cycles of social behaviors…
The factory of the future. One man, and a dog, run the whole thing; the dog to keep the man from touching the automated controls. (If you say “one woman” you don’t need the dog, since males are notoriously ADHD and prone to tinkering.)
