Saturday, December 03, 2011
AT MIT-Sloan The Next Technological Revolution:
Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves.
A paper prepared for the MIT Sloan School’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Ellen Brockley, Amber Cai, Rebecca Henderson, Emanuele Picciola and Jimmy Zhang
"we draw on current MIT research to look forward: to explore how technology is
likely to develop in the next twenty years and to begin to speculate on how these developments will
change the commercial world. We sketch out the three areas in which we are likely to see the most
progress – in information technology and communications, in the life sciences and in the science of the
small, or “nanotechnology.” Since each of these areas is far too large and far too complex to explore in
any detail, we focus in depth on advances in medical technology, pervasive computing and water
cleansing technologies for developing nations in an attempt to give the reader a sense for dramatic
potential of current research. We also highlight developments in microelectro- mechanical devices to
illustrate the ways in which current developments may interact with each other to create products and
capabilities in ways that are almost impossible to foresee...."
Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves.
A paper prepared for the MIT Sloan School’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Ellen Brockley, Amber Cai, Rebecca Henderson, Emanuele Picciola and Jimmy Zhang
"we draw on current MIT research to look forward: to explore how technology is
likely to develop in the next twenty years and to begin to speculate on how these developments will
change the commercial world. We sketch out the three areas in which we are likely to see the most
progress – in information technology and communications, in the life sciences and in the science of the
small, or “nanotechnology.” Since each of these areas is far too large and far too complex to explore in
any detail, we focus in depth on advances in medical technology, pervasive computing and water
cleansing technologies for developing nations in an attempt to give the reader a sense for dramatic
potential of current research. We also highlight developments in microelectro- mechanical devices to
illustrate the ways in which current developments may interact with each other to create products and
capabilities in ways that are almost impossible to foresee...."
