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When Sharp Corp. wowed the world with its flat-screen liquid-crystal-display (LCD) television in 2001, it wasn't just a technological breakthrough. It was a step away from the box. "For the first time ever, television gave way to design," says Michio Ogawa, a senior member of the design team that created Sharp's pioneering Aquos line. "Flat panels turned the television from an eyesore when it's not turned on to an interior-design fashion statement...
...Young Entrepreneur Organization, an association of 125 businesspeople under 40 who are the founders and CEOs of companies with at least $1 million in annual sales. The group gets together for a lecture from a corporate luminary such as ex-Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei or Matsui Securities CEO Michio Matsui, discussion about the hot business topics of the day, and a round of networking over cocktails at the club's bar. For Fujimoto, this is the new business as usual. "The old Japanese system of socialistic capitalism is no longer applicable to the current global economy," he says...
...MICHIO ARAI Yokohama, Japan
What we've discovered doing this series is that while not every futurist is optimistic, most of the fun ones are. Michio Kaku, a physicist who discusses what will replace silicon chips in powering computers (try DNA), can't wait for the day when "objects will be animate and intelligent, and they'll talk to us. It'll be like a Disney movie. Our grandchildren will be incredulous that we lived way back when things didn't answer when you spoke to them...
...Michio Kaku is a physics professor at City College of New York and author of Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century