Disruptive Trends in IT Revolution
October 29, 2008 by Raj Sheelvant
eWeek article titled Seven Disruptive Trends Driving the Digital Revolution has re-published a synopsis of top trends to watch. This list is originally published by CSE and you can read the 96 page report here.
Here is the list from the article
New Media: The Internet has become the new media. What some call Web 2.0 is all around us in RSS feeds, blog posts and wikis from MindTouch and Socialtext, among others. All of these tools are inspiring new methods of corporate collaboration.
Social Software: Social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.com has shown us the way we can build a ‘virtual’ society. Enterprises are capitalizing on the success of social media and utilizing secure social software suites such as IBM Lotus Connections and business-centered microblogs such as Yammer and SocialCast.
Augmented Reality: Virtual reality like “Second Life” will blend with physical reality giving rise to augmented reality. For example, TC2 makes the Intellifit body scanner, a walk-in booth that does a 360-degree body scan to help fit clothes to people.
Information Transparency: There will be sensors everywhere. People will be able to “see” all their assets through tailored services such as personalized medicine. Google Health, Microsoft’s HealthVault and Revolution Health all aim to give users greater control over their health records online.
New Wave of Waves: Wireless technology with location-aware Web services and commerce will make dynamic digital spectrum replete with open access.
Platform Makeover: Virtualization, with software scaling exponentially on one machine to let operating systems multiply, has been steadily evolving. Cloud computing, in which users pay for computing infrastructure and applications from vendors hosting customer data on their servers and storage arrays, is also changing computing models.
Smart(er) World: Semantic technologies will enable computing devices to interpret patterns as humans do, via text, speech or situational means. Computers will learn and make reasoned recommendations and predictions, such as telling the user to wear a raincoat after a forecast of inclement weather.
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