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Hacking, Extreme Tech et al. How to Spot the Future. Photo: Brock Davis Thirty years ago, when John Naisbitt was writing Megatrends, his prescient vision of America’s future, he used a simple yet powerful tool to spot new ideas that were bubbling in the zeitgeist: the newspaper.

How to Spot the Future

He didn’t just read it, though. He took out a ruler and measured it. The more column inches a particular topic earned over time, the more likely it represented an emerging trend. “The collective news hole,” Naisbitt wrote, “becomes a mechanical representation of society sorting out its priorities”—and he used that mechanism to predict the information society, globalism, decentralization, and the rise of networks. As clever as Naisbitt’s method was, it would never work today. This may sound like a paradox. So how do we spot the future—and how might you? It’s no secret that the best ideas—the ones with the most impact and longevity—are transferable; an innovation in one industry can be exported to transform another. This notion goes way back.

Cloudy with a chance of data loss. Cloudy with a chance of data loss image copyright by Harald Edens This is a followup to my recent column about Steve Wozniak’s warning on the perils of cloud computing, especially cloud storage.

Cloudy with a chance of data loss

It might surprise many users to know there are firms that sell cloud storage and do not back it up. They rely on the disk RAID and some redundancy in the cloud to “protect” your data. If something happens to their data center, they could probably not recover your data. Remember MailandNews.com? RAID is not a data backup technology. What happens if your cloud storage firm goes out of business? Firms like IBM provide a professional backup service. Thanks to Enron, the financial crisis, and other wrong doing, there are boatloads of regulations on how to secure business data. And that brings us back to the many cloud vendors we deal with regularly. No. That means your data is probably not backed-up. World Economic Forum lists top 10 emerging technologies for 2012. The World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has drawn up a list of the top 10 emerging technologies for 2012 (Image: Shutterstock) Our goal here at Gizmag is to cover innovation and emerging technologies in all fields of human endeavor, and while almost all of the ideas that grace our pages have the potential to enhance some of our lives in one way or another, at the core are those technologies that will have profound implications for everyone on the planet.

World Economic Forum lists top 10 emerging technologies for 2012

For those looking to shape political, business, and academic agendas, predicting how and when these types of technologies will effect us all is critical. Recognizing this, the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies has compiled a list of the top 10 emerging technologies it believes will have the greatest impact on the state of the world in 2012. 1. Source: World Economic Forum Blog About the Author Post a CommentRelated Articles.

Webscale. Hyperscale computing, used in cloud and big data environments, encompasses the infrastructure and provisioning to effectively scale from several to thousands of servers.

Webscale

These data-driven companies are hubs of the Information Age, serving massive volumes of data, lightning fast. As data demands increase, datacenter sprawl and the associated costs of floor space, energy, and maintenance are a big problem for these companies. Fusion ioScale, designed with the input of existing hyperscale market leaders, maximizes flash capacity density to minimize datacenter hardware footprint, complexity, and associated costs. At the same time, its ultra-low latency ensures the highest resilience and application response times so hyperscale companies can offer best-in-class performance. Click a link to learn how Fusion ioMemory helps these industries: Contact an ioScale Solutions Expert for more information. The Future of Computing.