Senwes Scenario Februarie / Maart 2019 | Page 9

INNOVATION | INNOVASIE As you can see, companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have supplanted traditional blue chip companies that build physical things. Technology is leveraging connectivity, network effects, artificial intelligence and unprecedented scale to create global platforms that are almost impossible to compete with. ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS When it comes to technological progress, the rate of change itself is actually getting faster and faster. Each year brings more technological advancements than the last and once the exponential “hockey stick” kicks into overdrive, innovations could happen at a blindsiding pace. 9 SENWES SCENARIO | KOPSKUIF • MIND-SHIFT 2019 07