Canary in the Gold Mine? [MicroBusiness]

Our technologies, the ones RF and microwave engineers and researchers have been working on for decades, are having unprecedented commercial success. Companies are doing billions of dollars of business selling components, subsystems, systems, services, and tools. Our technologies touch virtually every person on the planet. We've enabled worldwide connectivity, location services, information acquisition, security, health care, and entertainment. Our technologies have never been more relevant or valuable than they are now, and there are prospects for even more success with advanced semiconductors, greater use of millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies, advances in materials, and new concepts in design and integration.