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This deck provides the annual technology trends deliverable.

(6) HorizonWatching: 2012 Technology Trends

http://www.slideshare.net/HorizonWatching/horizon-watching-2012-technology-trends-12jan2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/sunday-review/the-internet-gets-physical.html?pagewanted=all But now — nothing personal, mind you — the Internet is growing up and lifting its gaze to the wider world.

The Internet Gets Physical - NYTimes.com

For those who love rich data on the world of media and telecoms, the release of a report by UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom is always a cause for celebration. http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2011/12/fantastic-international-comparative-data-on-media-social-media-and-mobile.html

Fantastic international comparative data on media, social media, and mobile - Summify

‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects Talk To The Internet | TechCrunch

Want to be notified to turn on the AC when a room reaches a certain temperature? Or when your laundry’s done? Well MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5″ rubber square which connects to Wifi and allows objects to “communicate” under certain conditions. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/25/twine-foreshadows-a-future-where-all-objects-talk-to-the-internet/

Researchers Give Robotics a Human Face | Science Business

http://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=6839 Mask-bot image (Uli Benz,TU Muenchen) Research engineers at Technical University of Munich (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, TUM) in Germany and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have developed a way to give robots a human-like plastic head. Called Mask-bot, the technology may have a more immediate application as a tool to create avatars for participants in live videoconferences.
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Robotics

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/071511-cisco-futurist.html

10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years | Data Center - InfoWorld

As computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change -- and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10.

Global Mobile Statistics July 2011

• USA: 302.9 million subscribers (96 percent of population) in Dec 2010 (CTIA). * Half a billion people accessed mobile Internet worldwide in 2009. http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/global-mobile-statistics-july-2011.html
A series of threats could reverse the Web's decade-long trend toward becoming a platform that encourages user participation (not just user consumption). Critics are predicting the imminent demise of the World Wide Web—the global system of hyperlinked content that one accesses via a Web browser. Critics claim that users' shift toward accessing Internet content via smartphones and other non-PC platforms will gradually destroy the Web's openness, replacing the once-freewheeling browser-based platform with a plethora of closed, single-purpose applications.

Featured Content | The Demise of the World Wide Web | SBI

http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/about/featured/2011/2011-06-demiseofweb.shtml

Mobile - Smartphones Preferred Over Computers for Web Access : MarketingProfs Article

More than one-half of smartphone owners (55.9%) say they prefer using a smartphone to a computer when accessing the Internet, according to a new survey from Prosper Mobile Insights . http://www.marketingprofs.com/charts/2011/5148/smartphones-preferred-over-computers-for-web-access

A Long-Wave Theory on Today’s Digital Revolution

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00074?gko=e0cf7 According to Elin Whitney-Smith, executives facing technological and economic change have a major decision to make: Will they handle disruption like the Spanish grandees who dominated the 17th-century economy or like the English weavers who supplanted them by embracing the printing press?
According to the Singularity Institute, (technological) singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. So simple the definition may look like, it signals the end of 5 million year human evolution with the emergence of super intelligence as a result of exponential technological development.

Is Singularity happening? | LinkedIn

Google Gets Emotional When Telling Stories ... And So Can You | MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog

When I first began working with the web, I was already deeply interested in storytelling and writing. I had written plays, had some poetry published and dabbled with short stories.
Turns out it was OK for me to be unwell last week. It gave me enough time to ponder some of the major stories of the moment without being compelled to write about them.

Will We Define or Limit the Future?: Tech News and Analysis «

The 9 kinds of context that will define contextual search | Trends in the Living Networks

Yesterday I did the kick-off presentation and workshop at a strategy planning session of a major online media company. The intent was to provide some different perspectives on trends in digital media as input to their deliberations.
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