Government leaders in the United States and China, the two largest economies in the world, believed that companies from their respective countries should lead in the development of this new technology.

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Piccard hopes Solar Impulse will start a similar cycle that will lead to unimaginable new dimensions in the development of technology.

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The development of consumer content technology that automatically assists consumers in doing this could lead to new fortunes as well as the protection and retention of content that might otherwise be lost to the vicissitudes of nature and man.

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