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Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox has lived deep inside transformative technologies for over 25 years. In the 1980s, he worked in software development and manufacturing. By the mid-‘90s, he consulted for Netscape–which handled 90% of all Internet browsing traffic at the time. InfoWorld and USA Today have featured his research, and he’s written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Reason Magazine. Patrick has appeared on Crossfire and Nightline, and been written up in The Baltimore Sun and CNBC Magazine. Now, Patrick edits Breakthrough Technology Alert and Technology Profits Confidential, uncovering transformational technologies that offer exponential gains.

  1. Breakthrough Technology Alert

    Big Gains From a New Germ-Killing Technology • April 18, 2013

    We usually think of ourselves as the planet’s apex life-form, but we’re really just feeble newcomers on this globe. Other life-forms have been around far longer. Bacteria, for example, emerged nearly 4 billion years ago, and these “simple” organisms exist in every conceivable environment. We can find them floating on air currents miles high in the atmosphere, where they are the dominant form of life and their presence helps clouds form. At the other extreme, miles deep under the Earth’s surface, bacterial species subsist in communities powered by radioactive decay.…Read more…

  2. Daily Reckoning

    Cyberstrength: The First True Fitness Breakthrough in 25 Centuries, Part I • April 9, 2013

    As the headline implies, I’m going to tell you today about the first real breakthrough in fitness technologies since the basics of physical training were established in ancient Greece. When I first talked to the two scientists who discovered and exploited the principles behind this technology, the word that came to mind was “unbelievable.” Since …Read more…

  3. Daily Reckoning

    What Can’t Go On, Won’t • March 25, 2013

    Watching this administration pretend that refusing to raise the debt ceiling is the federal government’s real problem — rather than its spending — is simply surreal. All the major players pushing for more debt, including the president, said exactly the opposite just a few years ago. Roughly, about the time The Daily Reckoning was filming …Read more…

  4. Penny Sleuth

    D-Wave’s Quantum Tech Set to Disrupt Computing • March 18, 2013

    For decades, digital computing has been on an exponential trend first described in Moore’s law. We’ve been able to pack more electronic components in a given space than ever before, and the trend will continue for many years. New technologies are emerging, however, that could eventually supersede the current computing paradigm we’ve become accustomed to. …Read more…

  5. Breakthrough Technology Alert

    Going Viral and Killing Cancers for Transformational Profits • March 14, 2013

    Breakthroughs in molecular biology and computer simulation are creating cures for some of the most troubling diseases. Sometimes, however, an exciting new therapy isn’t found in a chemical library or in code executed on a supercomputer. Sometimes it is found in our own “backyard.” Sometimes it is found in our own bodies.
    There’s often an element of serendipity to these events. The accidental 1920s discovery of penicillin’s antibiotic effects in Alexander Fleming’s ruined mold cultures is the stuff of sci­ence history legend. More recently, the discovery of an antifungal secretion of a soil bacteria, rapamycin, led to the development of improved immunosuppresants and cancer therapies.…Read more…

  6. Breakthrough Technology Alert

    Counterfeit Revenge: The Only Company the Pentagon Trusts to Bring China’s Counterfeit Trade to its Knees • February 27, 2013

    The discovery and description of DNA’s double-helix structure in 1953 is often described as the greatest bio¬logical discovery of the past century. DNA is not only living code capable of producing and maintaining living roses, cats and humans, it is the most-efficient data storage technology in existence. It has to be to contain the instructions that allow living organisms to function in a chaotic world. It regulates the structure and function of all known organisms. Breakthroughs in DNA research have revolutionized medicine, paleontology, agriculture and much more yet to come.…Read more…

  7. Breakthrough Technology Alert

    Glycoscience Furnishes a Sweet Investment Opportunity • February 22, 2013

    Science, biotechnology in particular, is always unpredictable. Many of our most important medical technologies have come about due to unexpected accidental discoveries. When this sort of serendipity takes place, there is inevitably a period in which very few people, even within the scientific community, understand what is happening.…Read more…