“We went a level deeper in our research by examining how today’s hot technology create platforms for future disruption,” analyst Bryan Hopkins writes.
Forrester, a research firm, understands that everyone who’s been listening knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices.
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Content will come to you.
You can call it “anticipatory computing,” or “information gravitation” or whatever you want, but it appears the future of search isn’t search at all. Instead, next-generation applications will surface the information we need when we need it — whether we know we need it or not.
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If things go really well, our civilization will continue to evolve and diversify.
A lot of science fiction and visions of the future from futurists lean towards the negative – and for good reason. Our environment is a mess, we have a nasty tendency to misuse technologies, and we’re becoming increasingly capable of destroying ourselves. But the demise of the civilization is by no means guaranteed. Should we find a way to manage the risks and avoid dystopic outcomes, our far future looks astonishingly bright. Here are seven best-case scenarios for the future of humanity.
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Predicting the future.
What does the future of humanity hold? Looking ahead at our future is an integral part of human nature. Information Is Beautiful Studio have compiled 38 predictions about the future of tech, science, and humanity in general — with an educated guess as to their odds of actually becoming reality. (infographic)
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Researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict the future.
Microsoft and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks, riots and deaths — and hopefully prevent them.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: A recent TEDx talk about solving traffic jams started by asking the simple question, “Who is in charge of the daily bread supply for the city of London?”
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Moonbase
The European Space Agency wants to 3-D print a moon base. But one of the biggest challenges would be the expense (in terms of energy) to get supplies off of Earth. One way is to send as little as possible to the Moon. Couldn’t we just make a moon base out of rock? After all, the moon is already made of rocks. (Pics)
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A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future.
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Marc Andreessen
Alexia Tsotsis of Tech Crunch was doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” last year when she had the opportunity to interview Silicon veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: What, in your mind, will be the most powerful entity in the world 100 years from now?
As we look around us today, it’s easy to point to a single nation as being the most powerful. But will that still be true 100 years from now?
Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist and Keynote Speaker
Thomas Frey is a futurist and keynote speaker who presents his ideas about the future to companies, government officials and others around the globe seeking guidance and insight in a rapidly changing world.
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Several universities offer free courseware.
2013 will see countless technological advancements, some of these will happen in education. Here’s a look at some of Edudemic.com’s ideas of what may happen in education in the next year. (Infographic)
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