Technology has immortality, cures for the worlds devastating diseases, quantum computing and a host of other science fiction notions in its grasp. Current trends in a number of areas indicate that over the next 10 years many of these technologies will come to fruition. "The Next 10 Years" tracks the trends that will transform our everyday lives in almost unimaginable ways.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

InformationWeek Gartner Gartner Names Hot Technologies With Greatest Potential Impact August 9, 2006: "Researcher Gartner Inc. on Wednesday identified the technologies it believes will have the greatest impact on businesses over the next 10 years, naming such hot areas as social-network analysis, collective intelligence, location-aware applications and event-driven architectures.

In its 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle report, Gartner assessed the maturity, impact and adoption speed of three dozen technologies and trends. The list was divided under three themes: Web 2.0, Real World Web and Application Architecture.

Under Web 2.0, social-network analysis and Ajax were rated as 'high impact' and reaching maturity in less than two years. Collective intelligence, on the other hand, was rated as potentially transformational to businesses. "

posted by expat at 7:47 AM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The prevalence of tagging and user-directed search is proof of this. Sites like PeekYou.com , Flickr and even Wikipedia show that searchers increasingly prefer to get their information pre-consolidated, and filtered by other users.

8:26 AM

 

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