Posted on 04/01/2013 7:41:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Over the next five years,” says technology fortuneteller Daniel Burrus, “we are going to see a transformation in how we sell, market, communicate, elaborate, innovate, train and educate people.”
Burrus has been following and (accurately) predicting technology trends for more than 30 years. He says when he was “talking about social media in the early ’90s, before the first Web browser.” When he talks, the technology industry listens.
So what kind of “transformation” is Burrus talking about now?
He starts by explaining a change in marketing. When the Monty Python franchise was lagging on DVD sales a few years back, they put clips of their videos on YouTube and within months, sales were “up 29,000 percent,” Burrus says.
Another example of marketing on steroids: When a music artist was paid $10,000 to tweet about a product, sales went up $100 million in just 24 hours.
Burrus’ marketing examples are just a taste of the changes happening thanks to technology. The three largest digital accelerators, he says, are processing power (“I subscribe to Moore’s law that says processing power will double every 18 months as prices drop”), bandwidth (“the processing power we have on our phones would have been considered a supercomputer in 2000”) and storage (“my first computer didn’t have a hard drive; today I bought a 64 gigabyte thumb drive for $10”).
Here are two concrete technological advances he sees coming down the pike.
3D Web Browser
Burrus sees interspatial 3D Web browsers in the near future. Like modern videogames, these browsers will allow users to, as he explains, “go inside the world on the Internet.”
You won’t need special glasses for this experience. 3D will be embedded in every browser....
(Excerpt) Read more at openforum.com ...
I'm sure. I think he's off a decade or two or three here. But then again it is 1 April 2013.
The article is from January.
Fortuneteller Daniel Burrus is proudly listed on the “Forbes 100,000,000” list of richest Americans.
Well I was just kidding with the April Fools bit but his Super Computer statement is just way, way off base.
“3D web browser”
Johnny Mnemonic....break out your Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7
“3D will be embedded in every browser”
We’re getting close to that tech right now. I was playing with the Unity3d plug-in this weekend, and you can put fully rendered, animated 3d graphics in a browser with a simple plug-in using that system. It won’t be long until a plug-in like that becomes universal and standardized.
3D web browsing might have some appeal especially for gamers, but 3D isn’t really necessary for most web applications. What I see as the breakthrough is something in viewing technology. Smart phones are great, but in order to be truly portable have small screen sizes. Pad devices have the screen size but are too bulky to be also used as a phone. Perhaps something like the Google Glasses might be the answer. With head worn projector devices, the screen is eliminated. One problem is that these head worn projectors might be even more distracting than looking at small screens for text messages etc. and be a hazard for driving or even being a pedestrian.
I always ask this question when I read about “fortunetellers:” Tell me about some predictions you got incorrect. There surely are some, and they’re almost never covered in stories touting some wonderful (or catastrophic) prediction.
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