I had the opportunity last week to listen to a presentation by Olivier Ezratty on innovation in technology. He is a very enthusiastic speaker on technology. His subject was particularly the pressures for innovation: the opportunites presented by new, cheaper, components development, and the social development of people which pushes for more and more in products.

He is a blogger on the subject and if you are interested and read French, you can take a look at his blog Options Libres here: http://www.oezratty.net/wordpress/.