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1 Perspectives on Global Technology
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Eighteen countries in the world still have a life expectancy of less than 50 years, and 79 have a life expectancy of less than 70 years. On an average day, 5,000 people die from indoor air pollution; 5,000 to 10,000 die from inadequate sanitation; 5,000 die from malaria; and comparable numbers die from tuberculosis and HIV infection.
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Engineering does not necessarily look the same in developing parts of the world as it does in the developed world. Amadei described an example of what he called frugal engineering -- an engineer in India who devised a
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In China and several other countries, the research workforce doubled.1 Three factors have contributed to the rapid expansion of the sci entific and technological workforce, said Ruth David, president and chief executive officer of Analytic Services Inc. First, greater access to information through digital technologies has enabled people all over the world to build more rapidly on the collective knowledge of the science and engineering communities.
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David, president and CEO, Analytic increase investment IN Asia and Services Inc. other areas and perhaps reduce venture capital investments in the United States.
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The world may not yet be flat, said David, but it is certainly flattening. THE GLOBAL YOUTH MOVEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY In past generations, people tended to create their identities from what they wore, what they owned, or what they controlled, said John Seely Brown, a visiting scholar and advisor to the provost at the Uni versity of Southern California.
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Furthermore, small tele scopes around the world are now networked, and amateurs John Seely Brown, visiting scholar and advi- are watching the sky 24 hours a sor to the Provost at University of Southern day and making new discoverCalifornia and the independent co-chairman ies. As an example, Brown cited of the Deloitte Center for the Edge.
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Similarly, mas other at blinding speed that sive multiplayer games like World is very much mimicking the of Warcraft bring together millions speed at which knowledge is of participants to create new and being created in the scientific imaginary worlds. When Brown community." recently logged onto a World of John Seely Brown Warcraft site, 15,000 new ideas had been posted in a single day.
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Some of the earliest laptops designed for wide distribution in the developing world were built with a crank on the side to provide power. Although the crank proved to be impractical, "a lot of people remember it, and I still today meet people who say, "The children [with laptops]
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Moreover, the semiconductor industry enables a $1.5 trillion electronics industry that has been transforming daily life. "The success of the semiconductor industry has been a remarkable achievement by many different measures," said Ray Stata, cofounder and chairman of the board of Analog Devices Inc.
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In the past, customers of the semiconductor industry typically bought components they could combine and integrate into their own systems. But customers today generally do not buy components and design their own systems.
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But there are even greater oppor "Our role should be to move tunities for innovation in putting the goalposts, to continue to components together in unique make American universities and productive ways. "As we look and industry more productive to the future, that will become more and the destination for the important and will provide the best and the brightest technical opportunity for American industry people from around the world." Ray Stata and universities to stay ahead in the technology race." Companies and universities in other countries are struggling to achieve parity with the United States in disciplinary excellence, and they are making tremendous progress.
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Systems-level thinking should be the guiding principle in moving forward. ERASING THE BOUNDARIES OF SPACE AND TIME In his former position as associate director for science and technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Eric Haseltine was responsible for coordinating the science and technology strategies of the national security agencies.
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Haseltine dubbed this phenomena "the sex of ideas," a phrase coined by writer Matt Ridley. In a recent book, Ridley analyzed the sudden flowering of human culture 45,000 years ago when anatomically modern humans began to move out of Africa into the rest of the Eric C
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It succeeded. And even during a severe finan cial crisis in the early 1990s when Aho was prime minister, Esko Aho, executive vice president, Corporate Relations and Responsi- R&D funding was increased by bility, Nokia, and former prime 80 percent.
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"Why do we not use mobile technologies for education or for health care? " The countries that will succeed in the future are those with the capacity to combine different types of talents to achieve global competi tiveness, he said.
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