Category: The Future

Framtidens fabrik ligger i ditt vardagsrum

Ibland verkar det som om jak­ten på pro­duk­tivitet och konkur­ren­skraft bara leder utveck­lin­gen i en enda rik­t­ning: mot cen­tralis­er­ing. Det gäller både kon­sum­tion och pro­duk­tion. Tillverkn­ing av vardagspro­duk­ter fly­t­tas i allt högre grad till tillväxtlän­der där det finns gott om arbet­skraft och lön­erna är låga. Vi väl­jer ofta att göra våra inköp i stor­mark­nader, eller […]

Monday December 19th, 2011 in Product development, production, technology, The Future | No Comments »

Tänk om Andrea Rossis energikatalysator verkligen fungerar?

För något år sedan skrev jag om spän­nande nya forskn­ing­spro­jekt inom fis­sion, lik­som om bety­delse­fulla fram­steg inom kon­ven­tionell fusions­forskn­ing (här och här). Nu har något nytt och ovän­tat inträf­fat: så kallad “kall fusion”, eller en likvärdig process, kan eventuellt ha förverk­li­gats. Det innebär i så fall inget min­dre än en sen­sa­tion och bör­jan på en […]

Tuesday April 12th, 2011 in Energy, Environment, innovation, technology, The Future | 5 Comments »

CD production a future for the record store?">On–demand CD production a future for the record store?

More and more peo­ple down­load their music on the inter­net, and record stores are hav­ing a hard time. How come I’ve never heard any­one talk about on–demand CD pro­duc­tion in the stores? The rapid decline in the num­ber of record stores was dis­cussed in a pro­gram on Swedish Radio P2 a cou­ple of hours ago. […]

Saturday May 22nd, 2010 in innovation, Lean production, Music, strategy, The Future | 1 Comment »

EU">Sweden most competitive nation in the EU

The World Eco­nomic Forum (WEF) has just released its 2010 Lis­bon Review. Accord­ing to this report, Swe­den is the most com­pet­i­tive nation in the EU [SvD]. Accord­ing to the WEF press release, Swe­den is “the most com­pet­i­tive econ­omy as mea­sured by the Euro­pean Union’s (EU) own com­pe­ti­tion bench­mark, the Lis­bon cri­te­ria”. As I under­stand it, […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in innovation, politics, strategy, The Future | 3 Comments »

More on the travelling wave reactor

As I wrote in a pre­vi­ous post, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is invest­ing in research on, and devel­op­ment of, the so–called trav­el­ling wave reac­tor. Accord­ing to an arti­cle pub­lished by Ny Teknik today, Ter­rapower, the devel­op­ment com­pany owned by Gates, is plan­ning reac­tors in dif­fer­ent sizes rang­ing from 0.1 GW to sev­eral GW. How­ever, we’ll have […]

Tuesday March 2nd, 2010 in Energy, Industry news, The Future | 1 Comment »

Wonderful, terrible future?

I was scan­ning the archives of New Sci­en­tist when I found this arti­cle by sci–fi writer Geoff Ryman with the irre­sistible name “2109: The Realiy?” Ever since I was a kid read­ing Jules Verne, I’ve been fas­ci­nated by visions of the future where tech­nol­ogy has reshaped the soci­ety as we know it. The future will be […]

Monday March 1st, 2010 in The Future | No Comments »