And Udacity and the xEd mega-MOOCs, with their overt emphasis on data collection and vaguely-defined business models, begin to look like trojan horses for mass-scale automation of teaching and marking.
Those that were called out in a blog post by Yvette Kanouff, SVP of Cisco's service provider business, include mass-scale networking, automation, optical, optics, cable access, and mobility, security, collaboration, IoT, and professional services.
The current focus in terms of opportunities is now returning to "quality" rather than the "quanity" that large scale automation in effect delivered.
"You can only make a margin with mass scale.
In healthcare, we have seen neither at mass scale.
And at mass scale, special-purpose hardware is critical.
But we're not mass scale.
The full impact of large scale automation has yet to be felt - income generating work designed to pay for basic needs may cease to bethe norm.
The process described here is appropriate for a clinical laboratory with sufficient sample processing demands to warrant moderate scale automation.
Its large-scale automation software is regarded as an underutilized gem.
So doing thousands of structures a year, the goal of structural genomics, will require large-scale automation.
