Cheap tech and shrinking transaction costs within supplier networks are two trends that outpace any large company's ability to adapt.

FORBES: Enjoy It Now, You 2000

Now its time has come, aided by the rise of the Internet and wireless tech and the plunging costs of transmission and storage.

FORBES: Whitacre's Way

The new security-industrial complex will grow, because we need it and because this economic juggernaut will take us down the now familiar tech curve of declining costs.

FORBES: The Security-Industrial Complex