"That is for me very symbolic of how you can shift from the old to the new and have a viable technological manufacturing industry going forward, with things like CCS, the wind turbines being built; linking up with Hitachi.
On the editorial front, more curation and less creation is likely to be one tenet of the magazine industry going forward, as magazine brands become guides in a digital world overflowing with content.
"We do clearly think that the mobile internet is the dominant force in our industry going forward," said Christopher Schlaffer, from Google's exclusive network partner for the G1, T-Mobile.
There needs to be a dialogue with policy thinkers, policy makers and the public around what the purpose of a university is, how we want to fund university education in the future, and how we want universities to behave – both with each other and with industry – going forward.
Now, today, when I give industry presentations and keynotes at events, my language has shifted from hundreds of millions to billions and trillions as I talk about the industry going forward.
Wanda's ability to leverage its insider position with future Legendary productions, as well as its own forthcoming Wanda Studios at Qingdao, should give Wanda a significant market share in the theatrical film industry going forward.
"It's all of our jobs in the community to make sure that those kinds of attitudes and beliefs don't have a place in the industry going forward," Brown told me.
It's a stat that will prove important for those watching the tech industry going forward, as Apple's iPad mini debuts this upcoming Friday, and following that we'll likely get more info from Cupertino about how iPad mini sales have fared so far, if the company sticks with its usual pattern of release early sales figures post-launch.
