Horizon2007:Trends and Potential

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2007 Press Clippings

The initial listing of technology trends was culled from a variety of sources, including the NY Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, etc.

We'd love to see your clippings here as well! Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes), or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify your comments with your initials, as I have here [LJ], so that we can follow up if we need to ask further questions.


  • Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet
    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/us/31divide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
    African-Americans are steadily gaining access to and ease with the Internet, signaling a remarkable closing of the "digital divide" that many experts had worried would be a crippling disadvantage in achieving success.[SEM]
  • DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
    http://edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html
    Jaron Lanier finds fault with what he terms the new online collectivism. He cites as an example the Wikipedia, noting that "reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely. [hmw]
  • Skype Unveils "Skypecasting" Conference Calls
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1956926,00.asp
    Web phone-calling company Skype is bringing social networking to crowds as it unveils a service for groups of up to 100 people to hold spontaneous conversations online. [SEM]
  • User-Generated Content Drives Half of U.S. Top 10 Fastest Growing Web Brands, According to Nielsen/NetRatings
    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060810/sfth070.html?.v=59
    "User-generated content sites have seen significant growth over the past year, owing in large part to their reliance on viral marketing," said Jon Gibs, director of media analytics, Nielsen//NetRatings. "They also benefit from their cost-effectiveness -- the content is practically free." [SEM]
  • Free Code for Sale: The New Business of Open Source
    http://www.cio.com/archive/021506/opensource.html
    Open source is becoming a vital piece of enterprise infrastructures. Open-source development is becoming a moneymaking proposition. And now understanding the companies that sell and the communities that create open-source code is becoming a critical part of the CIO’s job.
  • MIT Plans to Convert Cell Phone Users into Podcasters<br />http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1964680,00.asp
    A new research project at MIT's Media Lab aims to turn every cell phone or PDA carrying member of the public into a podcaster, and every mobile device into a virtual podcasting studio.[SEM][BS]
  • Professors Want Their Classes 'Unwired'
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0504/p16s01-legn.html
    When Don Herzog, a law professor at the University of Michigan, asked his students questions last year, he was greeted with five seconds of silence and blank stares.
  • Wi-Fi to Cellular Convergence to Ship Soon
    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1957347,00.asp
    Wireless mobility provider Trapeze Networks has teamed with DaVitas Networks, a new provider of mobility software and appliances, to deliver the ability for handset users to roam freely between Wi-Fi and cellular networks without interrupting a call.
  • Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales to Grow 23% This Year: Study
    http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/187900211
    Worldwide sales of cellular phones, which totaled $110 billion in 2005, will grow by 23 percent in 2006, according to a report released Wednesday by market research firm In-Stat.


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