Where is the Puck?

Here is the outlook for 2008 according to Glen Hiemstra (video “Outlooks 2008” as posted on Futurist.com) – partial list of trends and events:
- Turmoil in financial markets in US
- Continued growth in China
- Nanotechnology: more breakthroughs
- Home management trend: competition for […]

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Microsoft is working on a coffee-table-shaped “surface computer” … based on Bill Gates’ view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch…
“Microsoft Surface” will allow people to touch and move objects on screen for everything from digital finger painting and jigsaw puzzles to […]

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In the most recent issue of Fortune Magazine (May 14, 2007), Ray Kurzwell, visionary thinker and futurist, inventor of flatbed scanner, electric piano, large vocabulary speech recognition software and man who successfully predicted that the computer will beat men in chess (it happened in 1997, one year before his prediction!), says that we […]

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As we have just figured what is meant by Web 2.0 (user generated content; interaction; putting YOU in charge) there is now talk about Web 3.0! The new web (Semantic web or Web 3.0) will become more intelligent by transforming web pages into web database. Discovery engines (described before on this […]

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Four predictions regarding technology innovations as published in Fortune (December 29th issue, article “The Next Big Thing” by Lee Smith, underwritten by Nasdaq):
1) ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: with China leading the way
2) WEB will be even more central in people’s lives due to changes in consumer demand: consumer will demand information […]

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