Emerging Tech Oz and NZ
The New Media Consortium has released the Australia and New Zealand Emerging Technologies Report. Available as a nice fresh PDF, this is a report I was involved in as part of the advisory board. Was an interesting collaborative process where we all sat in a room together and had to list technologies in response to various probes, and then collectively vote on them by placing stickers on posters. Was a really interesting filtering process, and very productive. The summary: stuff that will matter and can expect to be adopted in the next year will be virtual worlds (ho hum, sorry, I’ll have more on that later), and cloud based apps. Two to three years geolocation (would have disagreed with this but with the arrival of the iPhone I think these services are now compelling) and alternative input devices. Finally, the four to five year horizon sees deep tagging and next generation mobile.