Open Source Futures #8: Technology Axes

How to incorporate technology issues as axes:

• About adoption and industry size

• Several examples of how that has happened:

  • Browsers

  • Aerospace industries

  • Carmakers

• It's not clear whether something is abandoned or not

  • Neural nets, deep learning

  • Nintendo Wii interface

  • Foldable phones

  • Extended Reality

  • Autonomous Vehicles

• Somethings things just need a really long time

  • Nuclear fusion?

• Decarbonisation - a new area of technological development

A portfolio approach looking at multiple technologies at the same time might be helpful - keeping tabs on them and then making further decisions when required.

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