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Technology Trends

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Dorai Thodla
Dorai Thodla

The document discusses technology trends and opportunities for leveraging those trends. It covers topics such as why to track trends, how to validate and view trends, tools for tracking trends, and how to leverage trends to create opportunities. Examples of short, medium, and long term trends are provided such as web applications, virtualization, and parallel programming. The document also discusses new skills that may be needed to take advantage of trends, such as learning, experimenting, and collaborating.

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Technology Trends and Gleaning Opportunities Dorai Thodla iMorph, Inc., USA/India www.thodla.com/about dorai@thodla.com
Topics • Why Track Trends? • How Do You Look At Trends? • Validating Trends • Tools And Resources • How Do You Leverage Trends • What Are The New Basic Skills? • A Few Trends
Why Track Trends? • Trend is your Friend • Every Trend is an Opportunity (in fact there may be many opportunities) • Near Term : Niche opportunities • Medium/Long: Explore Opportunity Space – Skill Development – Idea Mining – Cross Pollination of Ideas • Some of the technological trends are irreversible
Your Opportunity Space? Trends Your (Short, Medium, Opportunity Long) Space Opportunities Your (Problems, Passion , Skills Business and Models, Current Expertise Customers)
Co-evolution Technology Applications Enables Drive New Technology Applications Innovations
Viewing Trends • Short/Medium/Long • Current Trends, Future Trends • Mini Trends and Mega Trends • How George Stalk looks at Trends – Faint Signals, – Watch Lists and – Hallucinations
Short/Medium Term • Web Applications (Hosted) • Rich Internet Applications – Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, Open Lazlo, CURL RIA • Virtualization – Computing, Storage, Data, Application • Web Scale Computing – Infrastructure (Amazon ECS, S3, Google App Engine) • Mash-ups – Enterprise Mash-ups, Tools, Web Services
Long Term • Web Evolution (Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Data Web, Linked Data) • Parallel Programming ( 32 cores by 2010) • Information Visualization • The Science of Networks • Social - Connecting People with People • Knowledge - Connecting People with Knowledge • Learning - Peer based Learning • Innovation - Internal and External
Validating Trends Find the Connections – Follow the Money • Investment Trends – Ex: Intel Investments http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080603corp.htm • Job Trends – http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp – http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?cat=wiki • Programming Language Trends – http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html • Search Trends – What are people searching for – Google Trends • Book Trends, Social Bookmarks, Blogs, Micro blogs, Tag Clouds, Conversation Networks
Tracking Trends • What is your Awareness Quotient (AQ)? • Trend Spotting Tools • Web Data Mining – Wiki Mining, DbPedia, Semantic Wikis • Connecting the Dots (Correlation) • Trend Visualization
Trend Spotting - Resources • Google Alerts, Yahoo Alerts and TopicMinder • A service to receive alerts based on certain keywords • InfoMinder – Track information on the web • NewsMinder , Yahoo Pipes, Popfly - RSS aggregation, filtering, search • Digg, del.icio.us, Techmeme, reddit or any of your favorite social bookmarking service • Technorati or Google Blog Search tools • Tag Clouds (many of the services mentioned above provide tag clouds that tell you the more popular trends) or you can create your own tag clouds. • Google Trends - A product from Google that allows you to see trends based on searches • A set of high level Text Mining and Tech mining tools ( a subject that deserves almost a talk of its own) • Custom Trend Tracking and Visualization tools
Multi-core – An Example • 32 cores by 2010 from Intel • 13 Dwarfs from Berkeley (scaling multi-core server applications) – New Applications in weather, scientific research • A new browser architecture for clients: – Videos streaming – Audio annotations – Integral animations – Rich interaction
A Few Trends to Explore Literacy Through Entertainment Play To Learn Organic User Interfaces Adaptive User Interfaces Web2.0 Semantic Web Data Web Wiki Mining Web Mining Blogging/Micro blogging Tagging and Micro formats Multi Core Parallel Programming Scripting Languages Cloud Computing Virtualization Laptops For Children Wiki Trends Wikis as Knowledge Bases Enterprise Social Networks Enterprise Mash-ups Sensor Networks Multi Agent Systems Interaction Design Speech Interfaces Software Agents Knowledge Management, Intelligent Databases Complex Event Processing Stream Computing
A Few More Virtual Worlds Multi Touch Smart Boards Web Frame works Open Mobile Platforms Continuous Partial Attention GenerationY Tools eBook Readers Ubiquitous Connectivity On Demand Computing Peer Nets Rich Internet Applications Web Feeds Semantic Wikis FreeBase DbPedia Collaborative Search Contextual Search Semantic Search AIML Information Visualization Text Analytics Web 3.0
Web 2.0 Tag Cloud
Leveraging Trends • Every Trend is an Opportunity • You need Future Outposts (Doug’s term) • You need an Improvement Infrastructure • You need an Innovation Infrastructure – mash it with the internal Social Network • You need an External Innovation Network – Example P&G
Leveraging Trends • Tracking Trends and Early Adopters • Research/Prototyping/Piloting • Take Consumer technologies to Enterprise – (enterprise mash-ups, enterprise social networks, enterprise wikis, web intelligence) • Evolving Tools – Idea Wiki/Portal – Ideas Trigger Ideas • Approaches – Top-Down – Bottom Up – Bootstrapping
Leveraging Trends • A New Model of Learning and Teaching • A New Model of Working, Collaboration • New Skills, Responsibilities, Titles • Talent Spotting, Development • Uniquely Yours – specific to your country, region, culture, city, community, customers • Innovation Models – Little Innovations and Distributed • Dynamic/Collaborative/ Active Knowledge
Technology Trends
The New Basic Skills? From : The Ten Faces of Innovation http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/tenfaces/index.htm Learning Persona Anthropologist Experimenter Cross Pollinator Organizer Hurdler Collaborator (Catalyst) The Director The Set Designer The Story Teller (Evangelist) What Does Your List Look Like?
Some Future Jobs • Infovore • Django Dude • Portal Pundit • XML Expert • Semantic Dreamer • Parallel Programmer • Multi-core Master
Job Trends - Absolute
Job Trends - Relative
Resources • My Blogs - www.thodla.com • Periodic Table of Visualization Methods – http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html • NewsMap (HeatMap) – http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ • Wiki Mind Map – http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=wiki+mindmap • Google Trends • Job Trends – www.indeed.com • Programming Language Trends - http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm • Tag Clouds -
Programming Language Trends http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Video • MIT Sketch Board • Alice Bot • Job Trends Demo

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Technology Trends

  • 1. Technology Trends and Gleaning Opportunities Dorai Thodla iMorph, Inc., USA/India www.thodla.com/about dorai@thodla.com
  • 2. Topics • Why Track Trends? • How Do You Look At Trends? • Validating Trends • Tools And Resources • How Do You Leverage Trends • What Are The New Basic Skills? • A Few Trends
  • 3. Why Track Trends? • Trend is your Friend • Every Trend is an Opportunity (in fact there may be many opportunities) • Near Term : Niche opportunities • Medium/Long: Explore Opportunity Space – Skill Development – Idea Mining – Cross Pollination of Ideas • Some of the technological trends are irreversible
  • 4. Your Opportunity Space? Trends Your (Short, Medium, Opportunity Long) Space Opportunities Your (Problems, Passion , Skills Business and Models, Current Expertise Customers)
  • 5. Co-evolution Technology Applications Enables Drive New Technology Applications Innovations
  • 6. Viewing Trends • Short/Medium/Long • Current Trends, Future Trends • Mini Trends and Mega Trends • How George Stalk looks at Trends – Faint Signals, – Watch Lists and – Hallucinations
  • 7. Short/Medium Term • Web Applications (Hosted) • Rich Internet Applications – Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, Open Lazlo, CURL RIA • Virtualization – Computing, Storage, Data, Application • Web Scale Computing – Infrastructure (Amazon ECS, S3, Google App Engine) • Mash-ups – Enterprise Mash-ups, Tools, Web Services
  • 8. Long Term • Web Evolution (Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Data Web, Linked Data) • Parallel Programming ( 32 cores by 2010) • Information Visualization • The Science of Networks • Social - Connecting People with People • Knowledge - Connecting People with Knowledge • Learning - Peer based Learning • Innovation - Internal and External
  • 9. Validating Trends Find the Connections – Follow the Money • Investment Trends – Ex: Intel Investments http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080603corp.htm • Job Trends – http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp – http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?cat=wiki • Programming Language Trends – http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html • Search Trends – What are people searching for – Google Trends • Book Trends, Social Bookmarks, Blogs, Micro blogs, Tag Clouds, Conversation Networks
  • 10. Tracking Trends • What is your Awareness Quotient (AQ)? • Trend Spotting Tools • Web Data Mining – Wiki Mining, DbPedia, Semantic Wikis • Connecting the Dots (Correlation) • Trend Visualization
  • 11. Trend Spotting - Resources • Google Alerts, Yahoo Alerts and TopicMinder • A service to receive alerts based on certain keywords • InfoMinder – Track information on the web • NewsMinder , Yahoo Pipes, Popfly - RSS aggregation, filtering, search • Digg, del.icio.us, Techmeme, reddit or any of your favorite social bookmarking service • Technorati or Google Blog Search tools • Tag Clouds (many of the services mentioned above provide tag clouds that tell you the more popular trends) or you can create your own tag clouds. • Google Trends - A product from Google that allows you to see trends based on searches • A set of high level Text Mining and Tech mining tools ( a subject that deserves almost a talk of its own) • Custom Trend Tracking and Visualization tools
  • 12. Multi-core – An Example • 32 cores by 2010 from Intel • 13 Dwarfs from Berkeley (scaling multi-core server applications) – New Applications in weather, scientific research • A new browser architecture for clients: – Videos streaming – Audio annotations – Integral animations – Rich interaction
  • 13. A Few Trends to Explore Literacy Through Entertainment Play To Learn Organic User Interfaces Adaptive User Interfaces Web2.0 Semantic Web Data Web Wiki Mining Web Mining Blogging/Micro blogging Tagging and Micro formats Multi Core Parallel Programming Scripting Languages Cloud Computing Virtualization Laptops For Children Wiki Trends Wikis as Knowledge Bases Enterprise Social Networks Enterprise Mash-ups Sensor Networks Multi Agent Systems Interaction Design Speech Interfaces Software Agents Knowledge Management, Intelligent Databases Complex Event Processing Stream Computing
  • 14. A Few More Virtual Worlds Multi Touch Smart Boards Web Frame works Open Mobile Platforms Continuous Partial Attention GenerationY Tools eBook Readers Ubiquitous Connectivity On Demand Computing Peer Nets Rich Internet Applications Web Feeds Semantic Wikis FreeBase DbPedia Collaborative Search Contextual Search Semantic Search AIML Information Visualization Text Analytics Web 3.0
  • 15. Web 2.0 Tag Cloud
  • 16. Leveraging Trends • Every Trend is an Opportunity • You need Future Outposts (Doug’s term) • You need an Improvement Infrastructure • You need an Innovation Infrastructure – mash it with the internal Social Network • You need an External Innovation Network – Example P&G
  • 17. Leveraging Trends • Tracking Trends and Early Adopters • Research/Prototyping/Piloting • Take Consumer technologies to Enterprise – (enterprise mash-ups, enterprise social networks, enterprise wikis, web intelligence) • Evolving Tools – Idea Wiki/Portal – Ideas Trigger Ideas • Approaches – Top-Down – Bottom Up – Bootstrapping
  • 18. Leveraging Trends • A New Model of Learning and Teaching • A New Model of Working, Collaboration • New Skills, Responsibilities, Titles • Talent Spotting, Development • Uniquely Yours – specific to your country, region, culture, city, community, customers • Innovation Models – Little Innovations and Distributed • Dynamic/Collaborative/ Active Knowledge
  • 20. The New Basic Skills? From : The Ten Faces of Innovation http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/tenfaces/index.htm Learning Persona Anthropologist Experimenter Cross Pollinator Organizer Hurdler Collaborator (Catalyst) The Director The Set Designer The Story Teller (Evangelist) What Does Your List Look Like?
  • 21. Some Future Jobs • Infovore • Django Dude • Portal Pundit • XML Expert • Semantic Dreamer • Parallel Programmer • Multi-core Master
  • 22. Job Trends - Absolute
  • 23. Job Trends - Relative
  • 24. Resources • My Blogs - www.thodla.com • Periodic Table of Visualization Methods – http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html • NewsMap (HeatMap) – http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ • Wiki Mind Map – http://dorai.wordpress.com/?s=wiki+mindmap • Google Trends • Job Trends – www.indeed.com • Programming Language Trends - http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm • Tag Clouds -
  • 26. Video • MIT Sketch Board • Alice Bot • Job Trends Demo