Welcome to the November issue of The Exponential Executive.

In this Issue

	Welcome to the Exponential Executive
	Top Ten Tech Trends
	Think 10X, Not 10%
	The Future of Health Care: Part I
	All in a Week's Work.

In Other News

Interested in reading some of Jack Uldrich's other written works? Check out this thought-provoking essay, published by Tech Central Station, entitled "A Modern Erie Canal" on the idea of a space elevator.

Jack's review of Ian Ayres excellent new book, Super Crunchers, can be read here; and his perspective on John Gordon Steele's An Empire of Wealth can be found here.

Also Jack's thoughts on Web 2.0 were recently published on The Internet Revolution in this appropriately titled article, Web 2.D'Oh.

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Welcome to the Exponential Executive

Welcome to the inaugural edition of my new newsletter, The Exponential Executive. In combination with the new website, www.jumpthecurve.net, this newsletter will act as a vehicle for keeping readers apprised of exponential advances occurring in a variety of emerging technologies, as well as serve as a tool to help you and your organization "jump the curve" and successfully innovate into the future.

I wish to make this newsletter as valuable as possible, therefore I welcome your questions, comments and concerns, and encourage you to contact me at jack@nanoveritas.com at any time.

Sincerely,

Jack Uldrich, Author of Jump the Curve & The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business

Top Ten Tech Trends

The editors at The Futurist recently released their top ten forecasts for the future. I don’t agree with everything on the list, but the forecast is thought-provoking and I’d encourage interested readers to give it the once-over because the first prediction is a doozy: “The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025.”

Now, a million dollars in the future won’t hold the same cache as million dollars today due to inflation, but I’d argue that if you want to be a member of the millionaire’s club of 2025 it would behoove you to understand some of today’s trends in technology because they have the potential to either help or hinder your path to future prosperity. Interested in reading more about Jack Uldrich's predictions for the future? Click here.

Think 10X, Not 10%

One of my favorite quotes comes from Kurt Yeager who once said: ”In periods of profound change the most dangerous thing is to incrementalize yourself into the future.” I was reminded of this quote because although I often speak to businesses about the future of technology, I frequently encounter push back from executives who are mostly interested in identifying ways to incrementally improve their businesses or products. In short, they are looking for improvements in the range of 10%.

As I constantly remind them, however, we are no longer living in an era of linear growth—a 10% improvement might have been sufficient to keep them competitive in the past, but it is no strategy if they desire to be in business in 10 years. To achieve that goal, they must be on the lookout for the 10X improvements (i.e. "exponental" advances) that will radically transform their business. Read the full article here.

The Future of Health Care: Part I

This past month I had the opportunity to give the keynote presentation at the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s annual meeting. The title of my talk was “The Future of Health Care.” At the behest of the conference organizer, I provided an advance copy of my presentation so that they could make copies for the participants. The only problem was that the organizers asked for my presentation a few weeks beforehand, and due to the accelerating pace of technological change—especially as it relates to the health care industry, I was compelled to update a number of slides prior to my talk.  To learn more about how these recent advances could transform the health care sector, click here.

All in a Week's Work.

As proof of the ever quickening pace of technological change, I write a weekly column for The Motley Fool, entitled "All in a Week's Work," which reviews the most significant advances from the world of science and technology in the past week. This week's column highlights how advances in computers, material science and atomic force microscopy could lead to self-growing computer parts, shape-shifting materials and the ability to video record the activity of individual cells. The complete article can be accessed here.