zondag 12 februari 2006

lijstje: Technical revolutions

In her book ‘Technical revolutions and Financial Capital’ Ms. Carlota Perez traces five boom-and bust cycles of technological innovations:

  • industrial revolution
  • steam and railways
  • steel, electricity and heavy engineering
  • oil, cars and mass production
  • information technology and telecommunications

Each cycle has seen 3 phases:

  • innovation, fuelled by hot money
  • financial bust
  • extended period in which the technology is deployed properly

    Quoted in: Ben Edwards: ‘A world of work – a survey of outsourcing’, the Economist November 13th 2004.

Mijn taxatie is dat we na de internethype en crash nu in fase 3 van de ICT revolutie zijn beland.

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