Are You Ready for the 21st Century?

Are You Ready for the 21st Century ? from Michel Cartier on Vimeo.

Which reminds me a comment I saw here.

4) I expect the forthcoming transformation in the economy to undergo several phases:

a. A knockdown. This will probably happen right after the global system of financial credit had collapsed entirely (probably 5-15 year from now).

b. A big technological mind-shift. In this phase enterprises, economists, and people will become conscious of the fact that most technological decisions from the past are very ineffective once the third world is not willing to pay for the ineffectiveness. (This will be more or less an instant realization I think.)

c. Huge economic and demographic restructuring. Deurbanization. Whole industries disappears. No more consumer society. Nevertheless some businesses will find sweet spots for their new (or not so new) technological offerings (like your CEB press). I assume this will be the time when the whole industry will be in rush to do what you do now.

d. Stabilization. People generally have found a way to make their living. There is two now worlds: the low tech countryside (most of towns and cities will fall in this category) and few high-tech centers which are suppling the countryside with technology.

e. Decentralization. The state of affairs established in phase (d) is clearly not favorable to the countryside, so it will gradually re-gain the ability to produce its own technologies. This process will run for a quite long time I suspect.