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3D Printing: Not Past the Hype Until 2025
Tech News Today host Tom Merritt brought up the outlook for 3D printing in their year end Forecast Show – the technology continued go get a lot of press in 2012 and Mr. Merritt’s outlook for 2013 was optimistic but … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Invention, Materials Science
Tagged 3D Printing, Gartner Hype Cycle, Hype, Industry, Manufacturing, Microsoft, Production, technology
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New and Improved is Coming to Advertising
The Anderson Tapes, a 1971 crime thriller, foresaw the impact of a surveillance society, and in the introduction to our protagonist thief Duke Anderson, he exclaims, “What is advertising but a legalized con game?” With the myriad of tools now … Continue reading
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Nonwovens and Battery Anodes: Applying the Materials Science Framework
Dr. Yi Cui of Stanford and founder of battery company Amprius, recently published a paper outlining a new structure for battery anodes. Graphite is the most commonly used anode material, durability constraints have prohibited adoption of silicon, despite the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Innovation, Invention, Materials Science, Textile
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Quick Statistics on NC Amendment 1 Voting by County
Here are some quick graphs from the voting on NC Amendment 1. The Amendment declares marriage to be between, “A man and a woman,” thereby making matrimony and civil union the exclusive domain of heterosexual couples. Red denotes the eight … Continue reading
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Corona and the U-2; The Components of Strategic Reconnaissance
President Eisenhower had granted the U-2 team at the CIA significant leeway in making their first flights in 1956; after over-flying Moscow and St. Petersburg in their first sorties on July 4 following Kruschev’s visit to the American Embassy the … Continue reading
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The Textile Supply Chain
Like most mature industries, the textile supply chain is large and complex. Materials which the lay person might view as substitutes can have dramatically different end applications. The savvy industry participant can sell the same good to different end users … Continue reading
Posted in Industry, Materials Science, Textile
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Disruption Promoters vs Actual Disruptors
A disruption promoter is a facet of an activity that is believed to be disruptive; but that is viewed ex ante. Since the event is ex ante, it is unknowable whether or not it will actually be disruptive. A disruptor … Continue reading
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U-2 Spy Plane and a Component Theory of Innovation
Following World War II, during the presidency of former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower, the US faced a defense and security issue previously unknown to mankind. The combined invention of the atomic bomb and long-range bombers, and the accelerating pace … Continue reading
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Disruption: Planetary Resources Wins
Planetary Resources, with its roster of all-star billionaire investors and audacious business plan of mining asteroids has garnered significant press since emerging into the public’s eye. My business crush on this company is comparable to my 2001 infatuation with Salesforce.com; … Continue reading
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Andreessen Horowitz’s Missed Opportunity to Change VC Fee Structure
The fees that LPs pay to venture capitalists will only change if a top-tier VC fund volunteers to give its investors a discount. We’ll never know what would have happened had Andreessen Horowitz taken a different tact with their donations … Continue reading
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