Connect - share - collaborate - create (part 2)

Over the next ten years, technologies will emerge which will reverse this process. The content will find you.

Adaptive technologies will learn your requirements and feed you the relevant content. If there is a hot issue with many articles written on the subject, you will be presented with the most appropriate article, removing the need to wade through all the articles. Adaptive technologies will know what type of eel I am interested in, in my case only presenting me with information when they win, not when they get flogged.

To infinity and beyond

The last ten years has seen much change but not as much as we will see in the next ten years. In order for Australia to fully take advantage of the emerging technologies, to truly enter the connecting, sharing, collaborating and creating world, we need a true broadband network. It is hoped that the current government’s fibre to the premises plan does become a reality, as this will be paramount to Australia’s future.

As to my prognostications, perhaps the last word should go to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan. He warns of listening to people like me making long-range forecasts, as the world is far to complex to predict the future.