Trends and Potential

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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 items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.


[edit] Recommended Reading / Tagged Items

  • Google distributing Sun office software for free in intensifying attack on Microsoft
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/16/1186857638646.html
    • As free online apps get better and better, and developments like this continue, I think we will see not only a shift in platforms away from Micrtosoft office, but also a shift towards collaboration as a work style, as the online apps support it so seamlessly. [LJ]
  • The Ultrafast Future of Wireless
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18475/
    A new metal film could help control terahertz radiation and lead to wireless devices that are thousands of times faster than today's Wi-Fi.
    • this could have huge implications for colleges that have already made a huge investment in slower infrastructure -- but boy am I ready to see it! [LJ}
  • With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/technology/27maps.html?ref=technology
    With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos.
    • Mapping and cartagraphy have fundamentally changed, and the tools so accessible and so ubiquitous, most people would not even list them as a technology -- but as the tools merge with social networking, the mashups that are resulting highlight the amazing potential for learning and knowledge generation of these tools.


[edit] Still Untagged

  • Alter Egos in A Virtual World
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12263532
    Time was that the word "avatar" meant the earthly manifestation of a god. You might have also used it to describe an archetype. But in the earliest days of the Internet — back in the 1980s, when no one was looking — an avatar became one's digital self
  • Connection Commons
    http://www.connectioncommons.org/
    aims to provide a collaborative focal point for those interested in changing the paradigm of real-time communications from almost exclusively connecting with known others to being presence aware of relevant strangers throughout our daily lives.
  • Municipal Wi-Fi "Experts" Have Egg on Their Faces
    http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=4096
    Wireless Fidelity or Wi-Fi was touted as the universal solution for municipalities by many who proclaimed to know everything about everything when it came to network infrastructures



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