Today, we use technologies on a regular basis that only 20 years ago appeared impossible. If you had told anyone in the 1970s that today’s world would boast an installed base of more than 1 billion of personal computers, this would have been viewed as utopia. Or who predicted ten years ago that mobile phones would exceed 3.5 billion by 2008? For that matter, nobody expected that Moore’s law of doubling of computing speed every two years stipulated in 1964 would still hold true in 2009?
In technology, we have been able to exceed our wildest expectations, so why not try to achieve the same in social issues? The contributions to the economics section of the blog will span a wide range of areas that are critical for such an endeavor…
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By: Richard B. Olsen, Founder and CEO of Olsen Ltd