Speaking of Shifts
When we talked about shifts in class, we usually think of changes in regulation like what happened in 2000 with the switching off of degraded signal feature in GPS systems. This allowed GPS signals to be accurate to less than 12 mts potentially spawning a number of location based services industries (hint for the assignment ?) from (PND: Portable navigation devices used in cars or handheld) to location based gaming systems. But there can be other ones and some of them might have a slow buildup untill there is a tipping point. If you have seen AVATAR, you will be able to visualize the possibilities this is going to throw up. So say we believed that this was truly a shift in what we do, can we think of opportunities arising from this…..
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