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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. “How much is 134 exabytes, exactly?”, ”, you ask.

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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. So when you take a look at the major causes and decrease in firm value, and once again, I'm talking fortune 2000 firms, but I think it attracts to smaller businesses too. So, so our demand forecasts are off the most common one.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. For previous editions, click here. The growth figure is largely based on a new 9.1%