The improved online structure today allows more people to communicate with each other, e-commerce continues to grow, and online structures are dramatically improving. More than 45% of adults now have smart phones, for comparison in 2011 this figure was only 35%, according to calculations there will be about 50 million devices with an Internet connection by 2020. Yes, that's right, you didn't hear it - 50 million.
RFID, WIFI, and WIMAX will all be more integrated, quantum computing is in its infancy, and the potential for transforming computing and the cloud will illuminate and void the end-user experience.
Both public and private cloud infrastructures mature and grow, becoming more structured for end-user use. Both the cloud and other online structures were just in time as the provision of products and services grows every day.
Distribution of everything
With the increase in online connections, shipping and trading methods, it is very rare for the end user to need brokers. Dr. Andrew Simon views these changes as "the extinction of the middlemen." Personal 3D printing is expected to change the way we think about small business and manufacturing.
Some call this a "manufacturer revolution" as networks grow and it only allows designers to push a button to have their dreams come true on a local 3D printer and delivered to their homes.
And platforms of mass learning revolutionized the education system and have marked the transition from a 30-person classroom seat with a local teacher to free lectures from the most prominent online professors.
Switching from production in China
Worldwide production rates are changing and American businesses are shifting focus from China. A 2013 Deloitte report cites increased manufacturing costs, an improved competitive environment, intellectual property risks, and declining government subsidies as the main reasons for moving away from China's manufacturing capacity.
In a recent survey, Deloitte found that 37% of businesses with production in China will move to other countries by 2014. Switching from China to cheaper markets in South Asia, Africa, many types of production are returning to the United States.
A Deloitte manufacturing survey found that 39% of 900 predominantly American CEOs and managers believe their next manufacturing plant is
