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Tech Trendspotting For The Future

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-average-day-at-slashdot dept.

Dylan Knight Rogers writes to mention a CNN article about an annual 10-year forecast of tech trends. Lots of analysts produce forecasts, but the Institute of the Future goes one step further by crafting artifacts from the future: "mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009. You might go to an IFTF presentation and see baskets of finessed fruit that promise cognitive enhancement. Or you might wake up in the hotel where the IFTF seminar was being held to find your newspaper dated 10 years hence."

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  1. mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009: by nickalopogus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows Vista?

  2. Cognitive this cognitive that... by Falcon040 · · Score: 2, Funny

    several years hence, I forecast the word 'cognitive' to be more prolificatedly used.

    Just 30 seconds before reading this article, I came out of a meeting about the future of radio - it will be cognitive radio.

    Basically, it means, two radio transceivers that continually and dynamically selects the best channel or frequency they can use to communicate.

    But I didn't expect the word 'cognitive' to be used in such close connectivity to the word 'fruit'.

    Wow, cognitive fruit. *oishiiii*, tasty.

  3. Re:RFID by Monkeys!!! · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can just see it now:

    Your date: I had a great time tonight and I..... why do you have stickers on your shirt?
    You: Ummm
    Your Date: And your socks. And shoes. And... I don't want to know.