22 core trends and 3 macro trends, in body order. Body headings differ slightly from the contents list (contents: "Sensors", "XaaS", "SVPAs"; body: "Sensor Fusion", "X as a Service (XaaS)", "Smart Virtual Personal Assistants (SVPAs)"); body headings are used. The contents list orders the macro trends Screens, Video, Data; the body prints Data, Screens, Video; body order is used. PDF creation date 2014-01-08.
Anticipatory Computing apps and algorithms observe the last few minutes of your thought process in order to predict the next 10 seconds.
SVPAs harness anticipatory computing in order to help consumers manage their daily tasks, finances, diet and more.
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The ubiquity of affordable enterprise technology, an increase in mobile computing and constant trend towards multiple device ownership has helped catalyze cloud computing throughout nearly all industry sectors.
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Hosted applications and access to data across devices has become an attractive prospect for large and small businesses alike.
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Starting in 2014, millions of smart digital devices, from the Fitbit on your belt to the phone in your pocket to the coffee maker in your kitchen will talk to each other, monitoring activity, automating tasks and making your life easier.
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Billions of electronic sensors will surround us, connecting consumers to devices, corporations, government agencies and to each other.
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New technologies will soon broadcast our precise locations in real time – not just that we’re in a particular building, but that we’re standing in the toothpaste aisle at our local drugstore.
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Last year, we saw a few major media companies delve into the platform space, following the lead of Forbes and launching an open platform for contributors.
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Native Advertising, Branded Content, Advertorials – there are many different names for the same thing.
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Algorithms can mine your social feeds, browser history and other digital crumbs to create a real-time personality profile for you, determine your likely desires in a given situation and personalize an experience specifically for you.
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Years ago, researchers developed a theory to explain how consumers adapt to innovation cycles.
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In the past few years, we’ve seen a few independent and organized groups of leakers, who’ve shared everything from government secrets to corporate intelligence.
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We’re curious about developments in all sorts of cyber security, from biometric scanning, to Snapchat safeguards to quantum cryptography.
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The Twilight Saga books spawned a large community of fanfic writers and new works, including the independent juggernaut Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Towards the end of 2013 we heard countless stories about the failure of Healthcare.gov.
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It’s best to think of cities as a complex system of systems.
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Four countries’s economies collectively known as BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India and China – are a hotbed for emerging technologies.
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We think that 2014 will mark the official start of a commercial space boom.
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This year, 3D printing will continue to revolutionize rapid prototyping and new players will enter the market.
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Robots come in all shapes and sizes, from household helpers (Roomba) to self-driving cars (Google) to drones capable of delivering pizza (Amazon...?).
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This year, we expect to see a nontraditional currency go mainstream.
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We don’t expect to see every consumer wearing a Pebble watch in 2014.
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Data is a broad category with many stakeholders, applications and implications.
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We’ve untethered screens from our wall sockets, and in 2014 we’ll see a variety of new form factors (curved, micro) surface possibilities (walls, desks) and wearables (eyeglasses, bracelets).
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