Trendwatching – 2012
With the end of 2011 coming up, a lot of blogs and sites out there are evaluating the past year and making predictions for the next. Lance Ulanoff at Mashable.com has shared the five tech trends he thinks will break big in 2012. Here’s an abbreviated description of them:
- Augmented Reality: Ulanoff predicts that, at the end of 2012, it will be difficult to find anyone who hasn’t used AR-technology at least once.
- The Micro-Payment Economy: More and more people (and companies) will capitalize on the fact that it’s now easy to sell your own products online, without complicated business models or advanced software.
- The Rise of the UltraBook: As notebooks are getting thinner and tablets are packing more and more processing power, these two will meet in the shape of an “UltraBook” – a device with all the utility of a laptop, but with the sleek design and good looks of a tablet.
- Social/Digital Exhaustion: Although far from prophecizing the death of social media, Ulanoff predicts that the public in general will reevaluate their social media presence, and how the modern digital lifestyle affects both private and professional aspects of life. What the results of this will be remains to be seen…
- Mobile Chip Wars: As a result of mobile devices becoming increasingly popular, tech companies will be battling each other in order to develop next generation’s micro processors.
Read the full article here.
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