Quiz 1 Flashcards
What is the number of things to be connected by 2020
28 billions
A French company has been at the origin of the smartcard business and is now the worldwide leader; who is it?
GEMPLUS
Smartcards used in the telecom industry are called
SIM
Processing information with smartcards is:
An application used in many markets
The technology S-curve ends when
Technology limits are reached
Smartcards first appeared
In the seventies
Christensen’s theory shows that:
Diverse tech can provoke a disruption
In Schumpeter’s economic view, the average growth cycle lasts:
25 years
Smartcards SIM are a mass market; what’s the associated shipped volume?
3000 to 5000 millions units
The determinants of the shape of a technology S-curve (by Foster) are:
Techno performance (x) size of effort
Smart clothes rely on textile-embedded sensors enabling to provide users with functionalities including:
Capturing data about users’ physical shape
How many routes of tech-based economic development are there?
2
Thinking about robotics and automation, a limit of Schumpeter’s model is:
No jobs for the freed labor force
An application of technology consists in:
A new solution to an industrial problem
Current technological progress of wearables target technical performance such as:
Autonomy, accuracy and size (smaller)
