Monday, January 22, 2007

The 6 emerging technologies you should watch out for

mainstream within 12 months:
  • social networking
  • user created content

the web is being restructured - expectation now is that it remembers who you are, what you did, who your friends are, things you might like to see or listen to...

mainstream within 2-3 years
  • virtual worlds (separate from gaming)
  • mobile phones

1bn mobile phones will be sold in 2008, they are starting to be the tool people rely on, over things like laptops etc
virtual worlds or the 3d web are clues as to what the web might look like soon

mainstream in 4-5 years
  • massively multi player educational games
  • emerging forms of publication/ new forms of scholarship

there is a wiki that was used to generate the list, details to come. I have put this up now, as Andrew M really is a demon blogger and I just wanted to get something up before him just this once.

5 comments:

Andrew Middleton said...

You beat me. Didn't see you. This session was packed out. The only things I will add are you can download the horizon report for yourself now from http://www.nmc.org/horizon
and the audience voted to select one topic and they chose... virtual worlds. People here are caught by SL in particular.

Andrew Middleton said...

Here's the wiki. http://www.nmc.org/horizon/wiki/Main_Page So the horizon report becomes organic:

Susannah said...

We-er. There's a danger that CDT could become exceedingly smug at being so on target!
I expect plenty of flying missiles to come our way to keep us in check.

Richard Mather said...

I spent much of yesterday afternoon reading the 2007 Horizon Report, and chasing the references. As Susannah has said, it seems that we know what we are doing

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