JOHN KENNEDY looks at the industries of tomorrow that will put our economy back on the path to prosperity.
We've spent so much time looking back at what went wrong in Ireland that perhaps it's apt to look forward and figure out what growth potential is left to allow us to one day shatter the shackles imposed by our new economic overlords...
"Exports are up 6pc, manufacturing output is up by 10pc. That's coming from the productive element of the Irish economy and it's not being reported. Where other countries' exports are falling behind, Ireland's are growing."
It is important to give future generations of school leavers - and their parents - some ray of hope and allow them to prepare for the industries of the future...
Already believing is a Dublin-based technology company called Intune Networks. Intune's technology enables telecoms firms to run different services - from e-commerce to high-definition gaming - to thousands of households on a single strand of fibre cable.
"People talk about smart grids and a smarter planet, but really what they are talking about is smart infrastructure," says CEO Tim Fritzley. "The future of the internet is the internet of things, and the internet of things or the semantic web is primarily machines talking to machines with humans to guide them occasionally."
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