Emerging Technologies
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| Press Clippings |
The initial listing of news on new or emerging technologies was culled from a variety of sources, including the New York Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, etc.
Please use the edit link below to add more items to the list (see format notes), or to add comments on how or why you think these technologies or developments may be or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon.Museum wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.
Recommended Reading / Tagged Items
- Smartphones are the PCs of the developing world
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19526156.300
Smartphones may seem like a frivolous indulgence for rich westerners, but it turns out that their added features can be harnessed to help people in poorer countries do business, educate their children, etc.
- Higher-Capacity Flash Memory
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19074/
Metal nanocrystals can more than double memory capacity.
- Lightspeed Animation
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19114/
A new animated lighting system lets movie directors improve shots in seconds.
- Microsoft Moves to Replace Jpeg with Hd Photo
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/08/HNmicrosofthdphoto_1.html
Microsoft claims its lightweight algorithm creates higher-quality images that are half the size of JPEG.
- Two-Sided Touch Screen
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19300/
A pseudo-transparent screen from Microsoft and Mitsubishi lets people enter data from both sides of a handheld device.
- The Future of Web Video: Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers
http://www.lulu.com/content/515395
(Book)details twelve tectonic shifts reshaping the entertainment landscape. It includes interviews with senior execs from Brightcove, Metacafe, TiVo, Verizon, and Ogilvy & Mather, as well as Web video pioneers like Judson Laipply ("Evolution of Dance"), Fritz Grobe ("Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos"), and Gregg Spiridellis (“This Land”).
- uStream.tv
http://ustream.tv/
Anyone can stream live video to a web audience.
- Visuwords
http://www.visuwords.com/
Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
- Web 3.0 (Technology Review)
http://www.technologyreview.com/special/web3/
New technologies are changing the infrastructure of the Web, turning fragmented data sources into searchable wholes. Computers will gain the intelligence to understand, organize, and draw conclusions from online data.
- Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2
The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. We have done it again – and better.
Formatting for wiki entry
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