Case: miniature enterprise future growth

We live in a combined innovation era. In fact, the human has more than once experience this time: 19 century, wheels, pulley, the conveyor belt, gear, these standardized basic industrial parts to be combined to create new invention. In the 20 th century, the basic component of internal combustion engine becomes, the electric power, the electronic products and microelectronics chip.

Now, the Internet a lot of software development also involves standardization components, of course, is based on a novel way more. Linux operating system, the Apache server software, MySQL database and Python programming language is a good example: LAMP component has become the cornerstone of Internet construction today. Now development a application, amazon, Google, Microsoft provides cloud computing model can will data center fixed cost of a more flexible data service costs, and greatly reduce the innovation threshold.

Today, even of small company also can afford to communication and computing infrastructure costs, and in 15 years ago, only large enterprises have the ability to do this. If the 20 th century is the era of large multinational enterprises, so the beginning of 21 century will become miniature multinational enterprise era-small firms will rule the world. Today's silicon valley look full of such enterprise, the progress of science and technology to help them reduce the cost, they can in the global knowledge, technology and wages of comparative advantage. Through the standardization of components, they can in the world scope to develop software day and night, application and network services.

Most miniature company name you may have never heard, and will probably won't hear. Most of them the future may be closed or be big company acquisitions, but there are some like Skype and Rovio so the company could have become household names.

The development of science and technology for the virtual world brought the great change, and is in the same way change the real world. Industrial robot has developed for decades, and in the past, because of its vast size and expensive price, only to have the ability to undertake large enterprise. But, technological progress gave birth to the more cheap robot equipment. It also means that the past those must by large machine equipment manufacture of the products, the price will be a more cheap.

Of course, the progress of the technology will bring some negative effects, such as terrorism. In addition, the technology of excessive dependence on human society as a potential threat. But, the technological progress will continue, just as it in the past 300 years.