Interplanetary Trade

The financial crisis of late has evaporated zillions of dollars. Major importers like US, and UK are in dire economic recessions. The slowdown in spending and demands have driven prices of big ticket items down, with property markets seeing a major devaluation. Stock markets have retreated more than 50% since their historical highs. Average net worth has dropped significantly.

Insolvency of Investment Banks, and conversion of surviving investment banks to traditional banking is in the works. Governments intervene to inject trillions of dollars to the money system to control volatility. The world's most populated manufacturing country has also announced fiscal policy to band-aid the suffering export-led economy. Corporates are laying off employees in tens of thousands in an attempt to cut cost and sustain in the competition. Credit is shrinking due to more stringent risk management, impeding investments in all sectors at all levels.

The day after tomorrow has arrived. Dire times call for dire measures.

Since the discovery of Americas by Zheng He, international trade has fueled global economies and has been a major vehicle for globalization. The answer to the current global economic turmoil, however, may not be found in this World. Humans should no longer limit our source of resources within the earth, but to think outside the Sphere to look beyond in the universe for business opportunities.

New terms such as Interuniversal, Interplanetary, Gross Universal Product, and Cosmic Economics will be added to the glossary of business literature. New business models and corporations will be created to capitalize on the opportunity. New disciplines, policies, governing bodies, global unions, industries, currencies, comodities, raw materials, studies, inventions, products will be introduced. A whole new World will emerge. Universalization will take globalization to the next level beyond imagination.

Interplanetary trade has been a research subject since 1978, and has been the plot of many science fictions. The day has come, and it is now for mankind to market ourselves to the Universe.

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How to align different technologies in a solution? Every technology has its roadmap, it evolves independently of others. If you want to build a solution that is made up of multiple evolving technologies, how to ensure they will work together?

Imagine you want to take a group picture of 20 smiling people while everyone is moving around and not everyone is paying attention. How will you do it? However you take your picture, you will catch a few smiles, but it's impossible to catch everyone in the same shot. One way to do it is to take individual pictures of each person or smaller group of people first. Then Photoshop them to make a group picture. If certain people are still not smiling, you'll have to dig out their old smiling pictures and Photoshop them. If you couldn't find any smiling old pics, Photoshop again.

Technologies alignment is the same. You will probably have to align key technologies first, then build generic interface to other technologies. Sometimes you may not be able to work with the latest version of certain technologies, but your interface will have to be flexible enough to work with older version of them and still be compatible with newer versions when they are available. Sometimes that means building adaptors for those that refuse to comply.

XML, SOA, EAI, adaptors are the Photoshops for technologies alignment.