On the human side, technology can free investment managers from the drudgery of too much research to do. With limited time, more research can be accomplished. An experienced manager will balance the surplus time to improve both the research quality and customer contact time. On the non-human side, WWW pages can give customers a greater understanding of how their money is invested and how those investments are doing. This leads to increased confidence.
New businesses created by technology offer great opportunities.
One example is the video rental industry. The invention and popularization of the VCR led to an industry as widespread as fast food. Good trend-spotting software with powerful hardware can pick out such a trend while the stock is still small and obscure. The computer power and software expands the size of the time x parameter matrix that can be calculated automatically, enabling such trends to be spotted sooner. Analysis of the reason for the growth gives an understanding for why.