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To: neverdem
There are very few real insights from this article. Most if the ideas have been brewing for years, if not decades. Some get a five star “DUH” rating.

Pretty much anything mobile will be usefully hot:

Mobile Payment Services are poised to bring thousands of businesses into the 21st century.
Support services and products for mobile workers
Big upside

Mobile Education is poised to transform the way we learn.
Duh. That was the point of leaving the Internet unregulated, and keeping the telecom fees for rural areas.

Near Field Communication promises frictionless information sharing.
Limited. Will take many years to iron out the rules.

Mobile technology in the health care industry is changing how patients are diagnosed.
I invented a market model back in ’99-2000 with palm devices, but the .COM bust and adoption challenges forced me to change direction. This is a huge and convoluted market - between the Dr’s, patient, employers, payers, etc.

This will eventually make a huge impact on HC quality over time (Rx, records, etc.) and give power to Dr’s and patients with access to history / results that will give ever greater insights to problems / treatments. But, this is an area for substantial abuse of power, control, and restrictions on liberty. Proceed with GREAT caution!

Artificial intelligence could end boring, service-job drudgery.
Been hearing this since the late ‘60’s. Slow progress in many areas, but if there was a breakthrough opportunity, we’d have seen it in the ‘80’s with the massive progress in CPU and volatile/ non-volatile memory density.

A new way to receive your online purchases
This is pretty exciting as individuals and families become more mobile. Why have a permanent address when you can operate virtually?

Mass automation in human resources.
Sheesh. This has been in place for many years.

Government information transparency could revolutionize democracy.
Yeah, we’re holding our breath on this concept. A new round of Federalist Papers are sure to come….

Social E-Commerce is changing the shopping landscape.
Duh. This has been in place for many years.

4 posted on 03/30/2013 3:57:30 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: uncommonsense
Mass automation in human resources.
Sheesh. This has been in place for many years.

Point of clarification - mass collaboration within virtual communities outside of the walls of the normal corporate structure will be huge. Especially when reputation management by the community matures.

5 posted on 03/31/2013 11:27:52 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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