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2012

  • Technology:

    • Biosensors and the $1000 Genome
    • Smart Materials: 2011 in Review
  • Customer Demand:

    • Solo Consumers
    • Consumers' Use of Social Media
  • Business Environment:

    • Limiting Innovation as Threat Prevention
    • Challenging Capitalism

2011

  • Technology:

    • Cyberwar in Our Future
    • On and Off the Energy Grid
    • Tablets for Enterprise Collaboration
    • The Demise of the World Wide Web
    • Biosensors and Disaster Response
  • Customer Demand:

    • Brand Loyalty
    • US Consumer Confidence: The Bulls and The Bears
    • Auto Revolution
    • Familiarity as an Obstacle
    • Consumer Frustration Can Increase Sales
    • Welcome to Consumers' New Normal
  • Business Environment:

    • Telework
    • Cloud-Computing Concerns
    • Avoid Bad Decision Making
    • The Business of Social Networking
    • The Economics of Creativity

2010

  • Technology:

    • Innovations in Human-Bone Repair and Replacement
    • Biopolymers: Plastics from Genetically Engineered Organisms
    • Connected Homes: 3D Displays and Home Automation
    • Artificial Intelligence: The Brain/Computer Controversy
  • Customer Demand:

    • A Primer about Evolving Media Channels
    • What If the Wealthy Stop Spending?
    • Garbage In, Garbage Out: Survey-Question Design
  • Business Environment:

    • Food Fights Could Get Ugly
    • Happy Workers and Performance
    • DIY Business Infrastructures
    • Print-Based Economy
    • Toward a Virtual Workplace
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    • Technology List
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      • Biocatalysis
      • Biomaterials
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      • Biosensors
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      • Engineering Polymers
      • Flat-Panel Displays
      • Fuel Cells
      • Membrane Separation
      • MEMS/Micromachining
      • Mobile Communications
      • Nanobiotechnology
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      • Nanomaterials
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      • Pervasive Computing
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      • Polymer-Matrix Composites
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      • Smart Materials
      • Solid-State Microsensors
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