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22/10/2008
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What does the future hold for medical devices, the environment and technology in general?
There’s no use planning too far into the future, it would seem – and that’s according to a futurologist! Why? Because, says futurologist Ian Pearson: “Technology is going to accelerate more in the next 20 years than in the last 100 years. You can’t plan five years ahead with any chance of success.”
With the current world economic turmoil, who would argue with him?
Addressing a group of business people in Birmingham recently, assembled by Advantage West Midlands, Pearson’s advice was only to plan new schemes or products that can come to fruition within two or three years.
With those present mostly engaged in the medical sector, he began by looking at the problems likely to be caused by the ageing UK population, with the message: “You can’t afford to keep on increasing the health budget.”
For a longer article, see the November issue of Eureka.
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Tom Shelley
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