The Horizon Report Identifies 6 Emerging Technologies

The Horizon Report is an annual analysis of emerging technologies. It is written primarily for educators, but its usefulness extends to anyone interested in presenting or consuming information. I'd say that's pretty much all of us, right?

The report identifies six emerging technologies, giving each a timeline (or horizon) for adoption.

This year's emerging tech:

• Grassroots Video
• Collaboration Webs
• Mobile Broadband
• Data Mashups
• Collective Intelligence
  
• Social Operating Systems

Of particular interest to those with a geospatial bent:

Geo-based mashups of health, commercial, and other data are easy to find, and as geotagging becomes more common, geographical data will be embedded in more and more of these data, making it possible to plot almost anything on a map or track its movement over time.
(p. 24)

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