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STRATEGIC MARKETING AND PLANNING<br />

Table 2.1 One hundred technical innovations likely in the next thirty years<br />

Rank Technical innovations predicted for the next thirty years (to 1990)<br />

10 New sources <strong>of</strong> power for ground transport (storage battery, fuel-cell propulsion or support by<br />

electromagnetic fields, jet engine, turbine)<br />

11 Extensive and intensive global use <strong>of</strong> high-altitude cameras for mapping, prospecting, census,<br />

land use and geological investigation<br />

13 Major reduction in hereditary and congenital defects<br />

16 Relatively effective appetite and weight control<br />

25 Automated or more mechanized housekeeping and maintenance<br />

26 Widespread use <strong>of</strong> nuclear reactors for power<br />

27 Use <strong>of</strong> nuclear explosives for excavation and mining<br />

33 New and more reliable ‘educational’ and propaganda techniques for affecting public and private<br />

human behaviour<br />

35 Human hibernation for relatively extensive periods (months to years)<br />

36 New kinds <strong>of</strong> very cheap, convenient and reliable birth control techniques<br />

44 General and substantial increase in life expectancy, postponement <strong>of</strong> ageing and limited<br />

rejuvenation<br />

45 Generally acceptable and competitive synthetic foods and beverages (carbohydrates, fats,<br />

enzymes, vitamins, c<strong>of</strong>fee, tea, liquor)<br />

48 ‘Non-harmful’ methods <strong>of</strong> ‘over-indulging’<br />

51 Permanent manned satellite and lunar installations interplanetary travel<br />

54 Automated grocery and department stores<br />

57 Automated universal (real-time) credit, audit and banking systems<br />

59 Greater use <strong>of</strong> underground buildings<br />

66 New techniques for keeping physically fit or acquiring physical skills<br />

69 Individual flying platforms<br />

75 Shared time (public and interconnected) computers generally available to home and business on<br />

a metered basis<br />

84 Home computers to ‘run’ the household and communicate with the outside world<br />

Source: adapted from Kahn and Wiener (1967)<br />

Note: Numbers on left-hand side show actual rank position out <strong>of</strong> 100 in list.<br />

will be. Capitalists, spurred on by the threat <strong>of</strong> competition and the demand to open up new<br />

markets and raw material sources, make continuous efforts to shorten turnover times. At<br />

the same time the ‘friction <strong>of</strong> distance’ is condensing. The effects <strong>of</strong> this speed-up are that<br />

goods travel faster, new spaces for distribution and consumption are created (in aviation,<br />

rail transport, the World Wide Web). As a result there is a paradox, with simultaneous trends<br />

towards globalization and fragmentation.<br />

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