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This area is a place to collect "Technologies to Watch" lists published by other organizations. Though these lists and publications may serve a different audience and purpose than the Horizon Report, they contain many useful descriptions and discussions that can and should inform our work.

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• BECTA Emerging technologies for learning
  http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rp_ap_03&rid=11380
  "These publications consider how emerging technologies may impact on education in the medium term. They are not intended to be a comprehensive review of educational technologies, but offer some highlights across the broad spectrum of developments and trends. They highlight some of the possibilities that are developing and the potential for technology to transform our ways of working, learning and interacting over the next three to five years." See also the emerging technologies discussion forums

• Dan Taylor: Key technology trends for 2007
  http://fabricoffolly.blogspot.com/2006/12/key-technology-trends-for-2007.html

• Terry Reese's Top Tech Trends
  http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/488

• Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Curve and Trends for 2007
  http://horizon.nmc.org/wdata/xdocs/Gartner%202007%20Hype%20Curve%20topics.pdf

• SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies
  http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/attendees/etech/

• 10 Future Web Trends (Read/Write Web)
  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_future_web_trends.php
  Here are 10 Web trends to look out for over the next 10 years... *and* 10 More Future Web Trends (Read/Write Web)
  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_future_web_trends.php
  From the comments and trackbacks to the original post, plus some hunting around of my own, here are 10 more future web trends

• 2007 Technology Trends: Ten Terms to Watch in 2007
  http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2007/2007_terms.asp

• Computerworld: Tech Trends 2007
  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9006579

• Deloitte: Technology Predictions 2007
  http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/article/0,1002,sid%253D1012%2526cid%253D141561,00.html?theme=tmt2

• Developer IQ: Ten Technology Trends for 2007
  http://www.developeriq.com/articles/2007/apr/07/ten-technology-trends-2007/

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• Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends
  http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69138,00.html
  Taking a long-term view isn't easy nowadays.
  Even the recent past seems blurry at times. Google's just seven years old, but it's hard to imagine life before instant search. Broadband has been widely available for only a few years, but already dialup internet seems to high-speed users like a throwback to the Neanderthal era.

• LESTER Learning Science and Technology Projects List
  http://lester.rice.edu/DesktopModules/BrowseLSTProjectList.aspx?Mid=117&tabindex=1&tabid=19

• Life Online: The Web in 2020
  http://www.sirc.org/publik/web2020.shtml
  aims to provide an outline and analysis not only of projected technological developments but also their social, political and economic implications. What will the Web look like in 2020? What will it do? Where will it be? How will we use it?

• Technology Review’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies
  http://www.technologyreview.com/special/emerging/index.aspx
  This year, as every year, we present our list of the 10 technologies we find most exciting—and most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live. The list comprises projects in a broad range of fields.

• 10 cool cutting-edge technologies on the horizon now (Computer World)
  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=296934&pageNumber=1
  These cutting-edge technologies from research labs and companies that are looming on the horizon.

• Ten Futures (Stephen Downes)
  http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-futures.html

• ZDNet Emerging Technology Trends
  http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/

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