1. Your phone will tell you when you’re in love
2. In the design economy of the future, people will download and print their own products
3. The era of brain-to-brain telepathy dawns
4. Tomorrow’s inventors will spend their days writing descriptions of the problems they want to solve, and then letting computers find the solutions
5. Micronations built on artificial islands will dramatically shift the face of global politics
6. Young people will read more, and the old will play more video games
7. Ammonia m

1. Living Stories
2. Real-Time News Streams
3. Blogozines
4. Distributed Social News
5. News Goes Mobile
6. The Year of Geo-Location
7. Story-Streaming
8. Social TV Online
9. Marketers as Producers
10. Social News Gaming

Source: Mashable. 

Nah und...?

1. The Web Will Be Accessible Anywhere
2. Web Access Will Not Focus Around the Computer
3. The Web Will Be Media-Centric
4. Social Media Will Be Its Largest Component

Source: Mashable. 

• By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets
• By 2012, India-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market
• By 2012, Facebook will become the hub for social network integration and Web socialization
• In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC’s total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on
• By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide
• By 2014, most IT business

1. 2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web
2. Google will make a corporate decision to become seen as a software brand rather than as "just a search engine"
3. 2010 will see a major privacy brouhaha
4. By year's end the web will have seen a significant new development in user interface design
5. Apple's "iTablet" will disappoint
6. 2010 will see the rise of an open gaming platform
7. Traditional search results will deteriorate to the point that folks begin to question sea

1. Won't be simply to focus on outbound messaging but to consult with sales, customer service, and human resources on how the brand must be communicated in every consumer interaction, every tweet, and every touchpoint
2. Won't be merely to imagine creative messages but to fashion programs that are seamless with the actual product and service experience
3. Won't be to plan bursts of communication on a yearlong calendar but to respond to and be part of the ever-changing dialog with consumers
4. Won't be to count friends, page visits, eyeballs, readers,

1. Sales Staff Get Social Media Savvy
2. Inbound Marketing Gets Cash
3. Location-Based Fills In The Gaps
4. Social Media Lead Generation Becomes Common Place
5. Social Media Publishing Gets More Multi-Media
6. Influencer Marketing Gets Even More Important
7. Mobile Can No Longer Be Ignored
8. Corporate Web Sites Get Social
9. Social and Real-Time Search Drive B2B Social Media Adoption
10. B2B Gets Smart About Social Data
11. The Firewalls Start To Come Down

Rea

1. The fact that audience has the control starts to sink in.
2. Social media will get real budgets.
3. Social media will be integrated to overall marketing activities.
4. Social media ROI will become important.
5. Brands start to use listening platforms to monitor the conversations.
6. Social media will reach behind corporate firewalls.
7. Customer service and interaction with businesses becomes social.
8. Measuring online activities and their effect on offline sales will become increasingly important.

MEGATRENDS

1. Communicating

2. Unified communications

3. Parallel-time, hypertasking

4. Social networking fatigue, social media & networking opt-out

5. Gestural computing, kinetic devices

1. Communications. Our thirst for chatter is insatiable.