Urbanization in India, challenges and opportunities

With 16% of world population living on 2% of the world's land mass, no doubt India has some challenges to resolve... Two third of Indians still live in rural areas, though this is rapidly changing since an increasing number of them move to the cities. This in turn forms another challenge, since most cities are ill equipped to absorb the extra population, at least not in a sustainable and healthy way. The city of Surat however shows that it can be done...

We will see the same challenges in other parts of the world that are coping with emerging megacities. I wonder whether new solutions will arise from them.

The (near) future of 3D printing

Of the many trends I closely monitor, 3D Printing is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating ones, given its sheer impact on the economic texture in which we have come to live... But, to many people I introduce this trend to, it still sounds like science-fiction, or at best just another gadget to print useless stuff with.

This presentation aims at showing how wrong this view is. 3D printing is much more than a gadget and, though its exact future evolution is relatively unsure, what's certain is that it is bringing new threats and opportunities to many industries.

Here are some slides I will use in my speech about the subject at IT Work's seminar on the future of manufacturing (slides are in English but the presentation will be in Dutch). See them as a brief introduction to the subject: