Posted on October 23, 2004 at 8:18 pm
We are onto the last technology in our comparison. Here we will be discussing Radio Frequency IDentification based solutions - Idea viability. As in computers, Hardware is becoming cheaper every day, whereas custom software that make these computers useful, remains premium cost component of complete computer solution. RFID solutions seems to be following the same [...]
Posted on October 20, 2004 at 10:07 pm
BioTech
NanoTech
RFID
IdeaViability
Almost allideascontroversialas it involvesmodifyingnature
Great Ideas, but long development times
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TalentAvailability
Abundanceof Talent,but retainingthat talentcan be anissue
Shortage of talent and lots of turnover
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FundingOpportunities
VentureCapitalis hard tocome, dueto longproductdevelopmenttimes
Being a glamourous technology, Funding is easier to get, inspite of longer product development time
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FederalRegulation
StrictRegulationsand lotsof them
Still in infancy stage. Company has chance to formulate them in co-operation with Government
Summary of Biotechnology [...]
Posted on October 20, 2004 at 9:57 pm
Socio-Economic effects of Nanotechnology range widely from extremes of science fiction to reality. Nanotechnology has potential to dramatically increase the life expectancy of human beings through diagnostic or treatment nano-machines, improved drugs, or DNA repair. Although this is a positive outcome, it may give rise to some interesting science fiction scenarios, like capacity-exhausted cities or [...]
Posted on October 19, 2004 at 9:31 pm
Before we discuss Nanotechnology’s Return vs Effort, let me take you to the Golden days of Dotcom, when Hype was the king! Any and every internet related idea was a money maker. If you were a smart investor in Dotcom companies and cashed out before the Dotcom bubble burst, you were lucky, otherwise you lost [...]
Posted on October 18, 2004 at 9:13 pm
Nanotechnology is a fledgling technology waiting to take off. Federal regulations do exist in certain areas but some areas are practically bereft of them. When you deal with almost invisible atoms and molecules and especially when you are modifying them, results can be unstable and/or unpredictable. Given this uncertainty and lack of regulations, it is [...]