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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. Trend #1 by gowen · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Forecasts" to regain letter 'e'.
    Slashdot editors to be trained at basic spelling, punctuation, grammar.

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  2. Some of the stuff in there is scary. by thealsir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reputation accounts? "Downloaded song legally from itunes" Nay sire, I do NOT need people knowing each and every "good" thing I've done. It seems more like a thing from an Orwellian science fiction movie than anything else.

    Socially networked movie tickets? Leave me and my friends the hell alone.

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