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This seems like a very large and daunting task. Even if the industry accepts the ideas, won’t it take the industry a long time to adapt to this new way of manufacturing?

There will be many challenges ahead, of course, but the fundamental ideas behind the proposed approach builds on the proven ideas of many different technologies of the past. Though invention and reinvention are part of what is being proposed, it is not so much a matter of invention as it is one of orchestration and bringing the right technologies into play in the right order.

As to the matter of how long it will take, that is a matter that will be determined by the collective will of the industry to change. Change always comes with or without our consent. The question companies must ask of themselves is: “Do we want to be the master of change or do we want to be its servant?”

For inspiration in this matter, Verdant Electronics management has turned to the sage advice of the late 18^th and early 19^th century German philosopher, Johann Goethe who said:

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Begin it now.”

~Johann Goethe~

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