Digital Revolution

Bob Merritt is a 30-year veteran and recognized authority for semiconductor and communications markets. He is founding partner of Convergent Semiconductors, LLC. Convergent provides insightful market intelligence for memory and related technologies/applications specializing in illuminating the impact resulting from market and technological events and forecasting the opportunities created by those event changes. The topic of robotics is a technological, market, and social changing event. Starting in the semiconductor industry as a sales engineer for Intel, Mr. Merritt’s successes include the achievement of sales, revenue, and operational goals in marketing and operations at major semiconductor memory companies. His consulting experience is global, providing insight to the World Bank on investments required for semiconductor memory and other semiconductors for an Asia Pacific market. He was also a co-author of an overall Memory Report for Credit Lyonnais Securities financial analysts in Asia and Europe. Clients worldwide include major participants in the semiconductor and electronics industry. He has served as an expert witness in the San Jose Superior Court as well as the San Francisco Superior Court. He was also previously under contract to EDN to write a bi-weekly blog on advanced and new memory technologies under the title "Professor Memory."

• Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- The Next Technology Wave.- Makimoto's Technology Waves.- The Digital Revolution.- Emergence of the Second Digital Wave.- Technical Impact.- Architectural Impact of Digital Wave.- Social Impact of the Digital Revolution.- Other Unanticipated Consequences.- Robotics: The Third Digital Wave.- Era of Cognitive Systems.- The Uncanny Valley.- The Human Interface to Advanced Robotics.- Brain-Machine Interface (BMI).- Acceleration Rate of Artificial Intelligence.- The Industrial Revolution Revisited.- Singularitarianism.- The Noosphere.- Mapping the Brain.- Conclusion.- Author's Biography .