In fact, like most new, world-changing technologies there is a longer history than most people think.

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Likewise, C-suite executives should be asking themselves: what technologies are changing the world, how do they really work and how are we tapping into them to drive our business?

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Rapid increases in the availability and power of information technologies are changing the way the world does business and the infrastructure by which it operates.

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" Storage and networking companies, cloud technologies, "are changing the way the world works.

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Some of them are creating life-changing products, technologies, code, or other inventions that will change the world.

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