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Analysis: economics principles applied to technology advance.

 

The idea of applying economic principles to technology growth areas has not really been done and would be very helpful to people in these industries for planning purposes. For example, applying economic principles / economic analysis / taking an economic approach to biotechnology (specifically, genetic scanning/personalized medicine and synthetic biology (for example, what if we could produce all food and energy from basic materials in a lab like Craig Venter proposes, what does this mean economically? What if people become immortal, how would this change the propensity to have children and what would this mean economically?), nanotechnology and easy cheap 3d object printing (fascinating example: http://www.contourcrafting.org/), artificial intelligence, the 3d Internet, and/or other disruptive technologies. What does transformative technology change mean from an economics perspective? 

 

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To assess a technology's capability for economic change, check for

 

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