Michael Rowe

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

While there is limited new value to be gleaned from things like word processors and smartphone apps, there is tremendous value to be unlocked in applying digital technology to fields like genomics and materials science to power traditional industries like manufacturing, energy, and medicine. Essentially, the challenge ahead is to learn how to use bits to drive atoms.

Source: The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

We stop calling things “technology” when we don’t see them anymore. This is why we don’t really refer to writing, hammers and dish washers as technology, even though they obviously are. I agree that digital technology will soon go the way of kitchen appliances in that we will stop referring to it as if it were anything special. It will simply be the thing that drives everything else.


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