Emerging and disruptive technology consulting, forecasting, and analysis
It’s Day 2 of Prokalkeo’s month reviewing the top technologies of 2013. After leading off strongly yesterday with Watson, we’re going to take a different tack today. Not AI, not robotics, not even computer science. Material Science Not even the …
At Prokalkeo, we track a lot of tech. We don’t post about it as much as we would like, because we’re busy building tools to track it and doing the actual evaluation. But we do a lot of tracking. This …
Prokalkeo is happy to announce the establishment of a working relationship with BCC Research, a division of Eli Research. BCC Research is one of the world’s largest syndicated market research firms, and publishes on a wide variety of emerging and …
We’ve just put up a list of the skills and backgrounds we’ll be looking for as we expand. Feel free to shoot us an email at the listed address-we’d love to hear from you! Good times and expansions are happening …
What is Wright’s Law? As discussed in our previous post, the first of the technology forecasting formulations was Wright’s Law, posed in 1936. Similar to previous concepts used in psychology to describe the effect of learning, Wright used the learning …
Why bother forecasting technology? The need to forecast technological change is an intrinsic part of the planning process for a wide variety of fields. With better forecasting, financial and engineering decisions can be optimized and policy can be adapted proactively …
Something that we repeatedly run across on contracts is that a number of technologies are defined either too specifically or too vaguely for the purposes of effective analysis. Because of this, it can be difficult to track technological advances-very broad …
Things have been busy here at Prokalkeo-we’re working on some stuff that we haven’t announced yet for a client, but it will be up soon. As a small consulting firm, we realize that we have to set ourselves aside from …
A sample whitepaper from Prokalkeo, by Paul Bragulla and Colin Popell This white paper describes the three primary 3D printing techniques that can be used with metals, the implications for the manufacturing industry of their widespread adoption, and what criteria …
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Paul Bragulla is writing a series on Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) for the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), here.