2009 Horizon Report

The Horizon Report is published yearly and identifies emerging technologies or practices likely to be mainstream within the next 5 years. Not many surprises here: mobiles and the cloud dominate in the short term, geo-everything and the personal web in the 1 -3 year period and semantic aware applications and smart objects all emerging.

"In the first adoption horizon we find mobiles and cloud computing, both of which are already well established on many campuses — and still more organizations have plans in place to make use of these technologies in the coming months.

Institutions at the leading edge of technology adoption are also already applying the two clusters of technologies we have placed on the mid-term horizon, geo-everything and the personal web. All four topics on the first two horizons are already in common use in other sectors, including entertainment, commerce, and the world of work.

The two technologies placed on the far-term horizon, semantic-aware applications and smart objects, are not yet commonly found in an educational context, although research is being conducted in both areas and the rate of development seems to indicate that these topics are well worth watching." more>>

10 Trends and Technologies for 2009

From one of my favourite blogs, Tame the Web, is this brilliant post about trends and technologies that Michael Stephens believes will impact on what we do in libraries and information centers.

Michael Stephens, Ph.D., is currently Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.

Another Technology Prediction 2009

Influencers On Online Marketing 2009 Predictions By Trendsspotting

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Technology Predictions for 2009

Over the next few days, TrendSpotting will be publishing a series of trends and predictions as presented by influencers and experts in different consumer fields. Here are the first 2:

Social Media Influencers Predictions 2009 By Trendsspotting

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Influencers On Mobile 2009 2020 Predictions By Trendsspotting

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Thanks to Paul Reynolds for the heads up on his blog.

Horizon Report : 2008 Australia - New Zealand Edition.

Just released in a new series of regional and sector-based Horizon Reports is Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition.

The new series is a product of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, an ongoing research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education around the globe.

The project drew on an ongoing discussion among knowledgeable leaders and practitioners in Australia and New Zealand business, industry, and education, as well as published resources, current research and practice, and the expertise of the NMC community itself.

The Horizon Project's Australia-New Zealand Advisory Board probed current trends and challenges in post compulsory education as they uniquely are expressed in Australia and New Zealand, explored possible topics for the Report, and over several rounds of rankings and dialog, selected the final technologies.

The Horizon Report: 2008 Australia-New Zealand Edition (304K, 32 pp) is available now. The report is free, and has been released with a Creative Commons license to facilitate its use, easy duplication, and broad distribution.

HLT Staff: I have a printed copy on my desk!