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Nanotech Venture Cap |
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| At the end of last year, the U.S. government committed $3.7 billion in funding to a technology that few people had even heard of a few years ago. Big corporations are investing $3 billion in it this year. And venture capital firms have poured $1 billion into small startups that focus on it over the past five years. |
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Japan Is Hot Again |
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| Since the year began, the Nikkei stock index has posted a gain of nearly 9 percent. That��셲 the best performance of all of the major stock indices of the G-7 nations, according to economist John Park of Kudlow & Company. |
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Commuting Gets Off t |
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| Today��셲 domestic air travel system is taxed to the breaking point. In 2001, 570 million people flew on commercial airlines, and U.S. aviation officials expect domestic airline traffic to double by 2010. That��셲 more people than the system can handle. |
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The Scientific Compu |
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| Humanity is on the verge of a new paradigm shift to rival the changes that were unleashed by the discovery of the atom and the invention of the computer. |
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The Emerging Tri-Pol |
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| Consider the big picture, as we��쫣e laid it out in previous issues of Trends:
瑗� The population of the developed world is rapidly aging.
瑗� The United States is the only advanced nation where the workforce is forecasted to grow over the next 50 years.
瑗� The populations of the EU and Japan are actually expected to shrink over that time period.
瑗� Even China is rapidly aging and the size of its workforce will peak around 2025.
瑗� At the same time, Latin America, India, the Middle East, and Africa all have young, rapidly growing populations of under-utilized workers and under-served consumers. |
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