Comments on: Remember Googlezon?

By: Bob Leonard

Bob Leonard — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:30:00 +0000

classic analysis..!! Catching the trends is what predicting the future is, not knowing the who(s). Loved and still love 2014 and even though it may be a few years off on the scale, I think it is pretty accurate about the Times. Phil Meyer wrote a book in the mid 90s, The Vanishing Newspaper, that predicted the last newspaper would be printed in 2017… I believe that prediction might be closer…

By: Nick Lamothe

Nick Lamothe — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:06:36 +0000

Now it's time for us to predict ten years out.

I'm wondering if value to off-line advertising will rise as most people focus on, and continue to clutter, the available web space. As advertisers drop in print, even if numbers are declining, those who do use it will have "prime real estate."

By: sewa mobil

sewa mobil — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:19:33 +0000

Nice article, thanks for the information.

By: Marcus Sedlar

Marcus Sedlar — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:34:44 +0000

“Yes, social news and social editing will be critical, but NO, the winners of the current day – Google, Amazon, and Microsoft – would NOT rule that world. Totally new and unpredictable startups – Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr – own that space now. “
Agree! And there are already a couple of innovative products in that area such as tweetedtimes.com

By: MicroSourcing

MicroSourcing — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:06:16 +0000

Well, it’s Yahoo and Bing teaming up this year. And eBay is losing money. Who’d have predicted that?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:30:58 +0000

Speaking of Microsoft and the Social Web...

Forget Digg, Friendster and the rest... They've got a gem that's still hardly been tapped...

X-box already has high penetration into homes and has so much potential it makes my head spin!

Okay, it's not a 'mobile device' (yet) but take a look at this Kinnect video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DujMF_zJqPc&

I don't know about you... and its still early but this is gonna get close to obliterating physical distance as a barrier to social interaction. And this has implications in far more than gaming, selling stuff... and kids chatting about movies.

We are living in interesting times.

By: Andriana

Andriana — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:42:49 +0000

I thunk about quite the contrary, just as the technology allows virtually any individual to comment on news and be part of the discussion, so too will it allow new up-start companies to step in and gain prominence with cutting edge technology.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:58:19 +0000

Hey, John. Why hasn’t LinkedIn done more to become a Facebook-for-professionals type of site? I have a FB account and have thought of creating a second one for my professional life. There are books, apps, blogs, etc., that I’d like to share with my business acquaintances and it would be so convenient to use FB to do that. But my family/friends on FB aren’t interested in those things. And there are things I share with family/friends that I don’t want to share with my business contacts. LinkedIn just doesn’t have the functionality and user-friendly GUI (is that still a term?) that FB does. Seems LinkedIn and FB would be getting together on this. Your thoughts?

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:22:44 +0000

Matt, great point: “because it highlights the primary motivation of predicting the future: changing it. “

By: Nicholas Freeman

Nicholas Freeman — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:20:46 +0000

Great article and thank you for bringing Epic 2014 to my attention as this was my first encounter with it. The film shows remarkable insight and obviously we are seeing some of its predictions come true with the advent of cloud computing technology.

The one criticism of this video to be made, and I think you make it, is that these new technologies are not likely to allow the large corporations to monopolize the information industry. Quite the contrary, just as the technology allows virtually any individual to comment on news and be part of the discussion, so too will it allow new up-start companies to step in and gain prominence with cutting edge technology.
Still, the overall warning to the established news industry that they had better find a way to stay relevant in an ever-changing word is worth heeding.