Sunday, December 30, 2007

Top 10 technologies in 2008

1) Web 2.0

2) Software development methodology (RUP)

3) Grid Computing will really take off

4) Mashups

5) AJAX


6) Business intelligence (BI 2.0)

7) Thinfrastructure

8) USB U3

9) Second Life as a corporate tool (Ex. CRM/Call centers dashboards)

10) WIKIS

or

1) OLED monitors and televisions
2) GPS and "location based services"
3) Wi-Max
4) Linux on the Desktop (This year for *sure*!) (Best Bullwinkle the moose impersonation...)
5) Solar technology (new and more efficient panels, more production)
6) Next Gen of wireless "phones" and i-phone 'Killers'
7) 45nm Chips with 4+ "cores" (Intel and Sparc have different ideas of wha t a "core" is.)
8) IBM & Sony's cell computing architecture
9) Co-processor boards (again!) and more parallelized software.
10) Groovy and Grails

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Solar Power Adoption for Home Use
Fuel Cell Technology
Hybrid Cars
Extra Large Passenger Aircraft
Bio-Chips
Video Cell Phones
WiMax

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A Shift from Magnetic Storage ---Solid-state hard drives (based on flash memory instead of spinning disks) as a reality for many. Now available at 64GB, affordable, smaller solid-state disks will hit the mainstream in big time, leading to more crash-resistant laptops.

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