In contrast, the U.S. list covers a broad range of industries including Internet, finance, bio-technology and media.
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San Diego is still the epicenter of the bio-technology promise.
New laws allow for zones on virgin sites that range upwards from a minimum of 10 hectares (24 acres) for businesses such as software and bio-technology, to 1, 000 hectares for multi-sector zones that might involve more than one developer and would include residential areas, hospitals, shopping centres and other amenities.
But Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, said that while "the future looks pretty bright" there are "dark shadows" because technologies to improve the world also bring fears such as security worries over advances in sharing technology and bio-weapons coming out of bio-technology meant to feed us and bring us new sources of energy.
Information technology, bio-science and insurance remain strong sectors in the Portland area.
There has been a concerted effort to develop the technology and bio-tech sectors of our economy, which I think is starting to bear fruit.
But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.
She says that future furniture will have integrated technology designed to make it more responsive both ergonomically and even via bio-feedback.
But regardless of whether the company is an app shop, a renewable energy company, a bio-tech venture, or something still to be imagined, we need to remember that people who start technology companies are neither heroes nor potential heroes, they are simply people with the same limitations and conflicts as anyone else.
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Throughout the next decade major trends through an intermix of the life sciences and information technology will involve increasing use of biotechnological processes in understanding life, eradicating hereditary diseases, developing novel bio-industries, and furthering the uses of biomedical products in conserving the quality of life and the environment through the promotion of clean technologies.
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