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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff … All computer science, all the time …

May 25th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

22bits-mckinsey-tmagArticleSteve Lohr reports in the New York Times:

“A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm … not only selects a dozen ‘disruptive’ technologies from a candidate list of 100, but also measures their economic impact.

“By 2025, the 12 technologies … have the potential to deliver economic value of up to $33 trillion a year worldwide, according to the McKinsey researchers.”

The top six on the list:

  • Mobile internet
  • Automation of knowledge work
  • Internet of Things
  • Cloud
  • Advanced Robotics
  • Autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles

As we have opined before, “All computer science, all the time …”

Read the New York Times article here.

The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff … All computer science, all the time …

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