Dotcom blowout `part of process'.

(From The Standard)

Byline: Geogina Lee

The hype about Internet technology in the 1990s, followed by the dotcom blowout, left many people disillusioned about the tech sector. But Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, an independent, non-profit research firm that counts CEOs of corporations such as Nokia and Hutchison 3G among its members, believes the bubble is part of a growth process that precedes a fully-fledged tech build-out. Saffo, who spoke at the CLSA Investors Forum in Hong Kong last week, predicts that the next ``big thing'' in technology is sensor chips such as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), which he sees as being the …