Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Emerging Technological Black Swans

The guys over at Next Big Future have posted a good summary of some recent technical breakthroughs that they classify as Black Swans.

The Black Swan theory refers to large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events beyond the realms of normal expectations.

Cold fusion and Blacklight Power are included in this list among other areas such as quantum computers, DNA nanotechnology, etc.

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