Revolution Letter Agora

In retail sales, it was Amazon and eBay chewing it up

In banking, it was ATMs and online services changing everything. In entertainment, it was downloads and Web streaming. The old mantra of "innovate or die" was replaced with "crunch data or die." Some of these companies used computers to study every footstep, hand motion and eye movement of retail store shoppers for an entire year. Now they're using that data to optimize the shopping experience with more complex, rewarding in-stores...

Other companies used computers to study every street, alley and back road traveled by EMT vehicles in order to shave response times, cover more territory and, again, reward investors... Then there are the companies that interest us most — the companies that are analyzing all three billion base pairs in the human genome and...

Promising cures for every known illness (because they are reading life itself) These are the companies using analytics to figure out genetics and then create synthetic cures. In short, they are creating synthetic-bio profits. Soon ending the Alzheimer's. Dissolving the tumors. Restoring memory to age 17 again...

This revolution is now unfolding in laboratories tucked away in plain-looking business parks. For the most part, the media hasn't even kept up. Most of this has been kept secret, out of necessity. We have a way in. But before we go in to share "clean intel" and look under the microscope... And before we can talk seriously about the companies that'll become the biggest names of our time... We have to get comfortable with the way your trust grows.

So a little history is in order. I first got started with Bill Bonner back in early 1998 when — through the Daily Reckoning.com — we were warning about rising financial imbalances. Then, Wall Street's commissioned analysts called the financial record keepers at the time for earning their clients' money into their own coffers... I said I doubted the housing market would break above 14,000 and nobody wanted the party to end. Frankly, I wasn't buying it.

We're now entering the "Fourth Great Revolution" and early investors could be rewarded with as much as 800% gains. So let's get right to it. Let's go visit a place I call "the valley of the exponential." This is a place where the entrepreneurs don't think from Point A to Point B. They think from Point 1 to Point 1 billion. It's this kind of environment that distinguishes today's working investment from yesterday's long-term performance...

You can't overexaggerate the power of the exponential. Let's start with something easy. Let's pick an idea you can back with your own money. Let's make it 10,000% in 10 seconds. Impossible, right?