Trends

 

¹trend \'trend\ vb 1 : to have or take a general direction : tend 2 : to show a tendency : incline (C) 1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (C) 1994 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

²trend n 1 : a general direction taken (as by a stream or mountain range) 2 : a prevailing tendency : drift 3 : a current style or preference : vogue (C) 1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (C) 1994 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

Powerful Trends - Watch History Being Made

We would like to share with you a review of forward looking events that are setting the trends for tomorrow's  Business opportunities. The article that follows explores a dramatic event which has recently occurred and will have enormous ramifications.

"We Live Today In The Infancy Of Tomorrow's Empires"

How surprised would you be to discover a new emerging economic engine that involves other planetary bodies, moons, asteroids, or meteors and not just a global economy. Fact or fiction? In WIRED Magazine July 2003, an article describes a dramatic trend of abundance thinking. A $10 Million Prize to the first private sector entity to fly safely into space.

That thinking has inspired a shift in thought from how NASA will conduct business in the future. Before the dot com burst, several profound investors shifted their financial resources into something quite inspirational. They began assembling the technology for the private commercialization of space. The many venture groups involved in these projects are on target launching their spacecrafts last year. (2004) Also this year, the international space station is moving quickly beyond operational mode. Virgin Air Corporation has begun investing heavily on a Space Hotel. There are commercials on television offering days in space as their grand prize.

Soon these investments will be the gateway for building space based manufacturing environments. Planet Earth will shortly be experiencing trade with moon based manufacturing facilities who will harness the low gravity environment to produce nano-based products with flawless precision. While debates on offshoring are raging on, productivity gains are outpacing the offshoring issue at a much faster rate. The future goal of nano-based technology will be to have products, that create themselves, multiplying preset groups of molecules at a time. The low gravity fixed temperature environment will allow the growth rates to reach mass production feasibility.

Current reality is, it now simply takes less people to produce more products in less time. High volume production based machining is being replaced with injection molded liquid metal parts. New products that address markets that don't even exist today will continue to replace existing items and services. As a globe, we have shifted (to quote Melinda Davis in "The New Culture of Desire") from a "Physical Reality" into an "Imaginational Reality". The answers to societies problems are coming from the inside of our heads. What our minds can conceive is now pretty much producible. With a planet of 6 billion people and counting, space resources can go a long way to address long standing social and cultural problems. By adding the new paradigms of space based manufacturing, the economic impact of these galactic activities will "Make Bill Gates look like a pauper".

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