Rounding up Predictions Season 2011
To celebrate the end of techy prediction season (and hopefully, the end of ‘post-Christmas back to work shock’!), here’s a list of some of the best articles and reports I’ve seen:
- Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
- IDC predictions for 2011: Welcome to the New Mainstream
- Trends in the Living Network: Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and the Zeitgeist for 2011
- CIO Network: Cloud Computing predictions for 2011
- Constellation Research:How Will Technology Disrupt the Enterprise in 2011?
- Jeremiah Owyang on Corporate Social Strategy in 2011
- TechCrunch: Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011
- ReadWriteWeb did a whole series of predictions this year:
- Mashable: 40+ Things You Need to Watch in 2011
- Fast Company: JWT’s Futurists on 10 Ways We’ll Shop in 2011
- Internet Evolution: Predicting Leaks, Tablets & Regulations for 2011
- Engadget: Best of CES 2011
Enjoy the rest of your January everyone! :-)
Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and the Zeitgeist for 2011
Ross Dawson and the guys over at Trends in the Living Network have published a 3-page visual ‘trends framework’ that captures their thinking about the Internet’s impact on the connected world, technology, economics, governance and the social sphere.
Their model covers the last decade - the components of which they label ‘exatrends’ to indicate the vast overarching impact of those forces - and a breakdown of the major concerns likely to characterise the zeitgeist of 2011.
I like it - it’s simple and concise and isn’t too far out in it’s language - I’ve stuck it on Technophobia’s ‘cool wall’ of technologies and trends to keep an eye on and I’m sure we’ll glance at it several times over the next 12 months :-)
(Although I do wonder what happened to ‘giga-trends’, et al…)
