Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.