Word: understanding
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...crowd of teens at the Alexander Hamilton housing projects in Paterson, N.J. Knowing that for many of these kids the closest model of financial success is the local drug dealer, this 29-year-old dotcom entrepreneur speaks to them in language he knows they understand. "The new hustle," declares Dash, "is technology...
...today. For any invention to succeed in the marketplace, it has to be some kind of surprise. Most of all for the competitor. And then for the consumer. As a result, invention (with Descartes's help) has given us a world nobody could have forecast and few can understand because of the esoteric process of innovation and the fact that it has never been subject to general social audit...
Eventually they'll even understand you. The 10-year horizon promises the birth of both natural-language software that "understands" many complex sentences, and broadband data speeds that make online video ubiquitous. The average software product in 2010 could well have a face, a voice, ears and something resembling a brain, which suggests that our next great challenge will be figuring out what we really want...
Technology has always been a double-edged sword, and we don't have to look further than today to see both profound promise and peril. It is important to understand that these developments are not emerging from a few isolated projects but are the inevitable result of many thousands of competitive efforts. We would have to repeal free enterprise and every visage of economic competition to prevent the ongoing progression of these technologies. In the end, we will have no choice but to address the threats emerging from technology through a combination of ethical standards, technological "immune systems...
...this decade, it will be possible for people without technical training to use an even more sophisticated generation of design tools to create complex electronic and mechanical systems. Many products will be designed not by research-and-development departments (at least not directly) but by professionals who understand the needs of their markets, aided by increasingly intelligent Web-research tools. Even consumers will design their own products, ranging from their clothes to their homes. We will continue to regard these machines as tools, but they will emerge as remarkably powerful amplifiers of the human creative process...