Recently Infoworld published their 10 “future shock” predictions. Here they are, and what I think of them (and a couple of my own):
1. Triumph of the cloud - following on from Amazon’s EC2 services and the like, and from early attempts such as SETI@home’sdistributed search for E.T. Verdict: quite likely, but conflicts with the growth [...]
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10 “future shock” predictions - well, 12 actually
Published October 9th, 2008 in top lists. 0 CommentsWell, lots of people is the answer to that (maybe 2.5m and growing) . I’m still a bit sceptical of the utility of “I’m eating a burger” messages, but here are the individuals (and 2 organisations) who are really creating some traction with their followers. Thanks to twitterholic for this Top 10 list. Notable Web [...]
It’s probably a deeply human shortcut, but we really often want to know what’s the most POPULAR thing, in whatever category we’re looking at. So i thought I’d do that quickly on a couple of sites. Right now, this is the most popular presentation in english on slideshare with half a million views:
Death by PowerPoint
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