Here is another of the Pew
Research questions "future of the Internet" survey. I wrote about Andy
Oram’s response to the question: Will Google Makes Us Stupid? Andy responded to more questions
including: Are the next takeoff technologies evident now? Andy said yes. I would not be so bold
to say that I can predict that all of them are evident but many are. I liked
his list. Andy also qualified his thoughts by saying this was a starter list.
Andy's list includes, “more powerful mobile devices,
ever-cheaper netbooks, virtualization and cloud computing, reputation systems
for social networking and group collaboration, sensors and other small systems
reporting limited amounts of information, do-it-yourself embedded systems,
robots, sophisticated algorithms for slurping up data and performing
statistical analysis, visualization tools to report the results of that
analysis, affective technologies, personalized and location-aware services,
excellent facial and voice recognition, electronic paper, anomaly-based
security monitoring, self-healing systems--that's a reasonable list to get
started with.”
Apple is certainly banking on
the first two. At Darwin we are particularly pleased with another two of these:
sophisticated
algorithms for slurping up data and performing statistical analysis,
visualization tools to report the results of that analysis. This is what we do.
The Darwin Awareness Engine ™ helps to uncover relevant content to your interests and the
themes associated with these topics.
Features such as our Buzz Tracker ™ and our Scan Cloud ™ help to visualize this emerging content and the
relationships between correlated content.
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