Last year, SpaceX was the first private company in history to launch and successfully return an unmanned space capsule from orbit.
April 30th, 2012 | Ray Blanco | 1 comment | ContinuedArchive for Ray Blanco
Cloud Computing – The Cloud That Rains Money
Cloud computing – the delivery of computing as an online service, rather than a product – has entered an explosive growth phase.
March 2nd, 2012 | Ray Blanco | 2 comments | Continued
Robotics and Health Care: A New Growth Market
According to the Japan Robotics Association, the consumer robotics market is projected to reach 24 billion this year, and balloon to 66 billion by 2025.
February 22nd, 2012 | Ray Blanco | 0 comments | Continued
The Good Kind of Virus
The ability to manipulate matter at the atomic level is already changing the way we do nearly everything… The importance of this technology is like the discovery of fire. Nanotechnology will facilitate dramatic innovation in medicine, energy, and electronics.
August 4th, 2011 | Ray Blanco | 0 comments | Continued
Distress is the Mother of Opportunity
Television has evolved, from the original cathode ray tube technology, through plasma, to liquid crystal displays. Now, there is a new wave of display technologies on the verge of large market acceptance that are thinner, lighter, and use less energy than LCD screens.
July 13th, 2011 | Ray Blanco | 1 comment | Continued
Transforming Patience Into Gains
There’s plenty of bad news out there lately. Nations such as Greece are in imminent danger of defaulting on public debts, and thousands of people are protesting in the streets in response to austerity measures. In the US, unemployment is rising, and indicators suggest a return to economic contraction.
June 28th, 2011 | Ray Blanco | 0 comments | Continued
Nano-Engineering Making Big Strides
Scientific and technological advances are increasingly powered by our ability to build things at the atomic level. Mimicking processes that take place in biology, scientists are using custom self-assembling structures to power new molecular breakthroughs.
June 3rd, 2011 | Ray Blanco | 0 comments | Continued
The Power of Exponential Technological Change
Every once in a while, my wife sends me an email with the latest on- sale bargains from a membership warehouse club we belong to. One time I noticed a Westinghouse 42″ LED LCD flat-screen TV that was on sale for less than $600. Quite a bargain!
March 21st, 2011 | Ray Blanco | 1 comment | Continued
Technology is the Best “Inflation Trade”
As you know, we are about a month out from the Federal Reserve’s decision to pump additional funds into a slow US economy. Of course, this decision has been controversial. Many people think that it might ignite an inflation bomb. Couple this with the more recent bailout of Irish banks (and speculation about more euro dominoes about to fall) and lots of folks are pretty scared.
December 13th, 2010 | Ray Blanco | 3 comments | Continued
Profiting from Information Overload
Throughout most of history, human beings could expect to grow old and die in a world very much like the one into which they were born. Change was slow, by modern standards. People lived as hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, before agricultural technology took root and changed society about 10,000 years ago.
November 25th, 2010 | Ray Blanco | 0 comments | Continued
