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Horizon Project “Metatrends”

Fri, 2008/02/08 - 14:28 — sleslie

http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Metatrends

As you may have heard, this year’s Horizon Report has been published. I was again privileged to be part of the advisory board that helped create it.

During the course of the small foofraw that emerged last year around it’s publication I mused how it would be interesting to have some analysis looking back over the past projections. Well, it looks like someone was listening - I stumbled across this page on the project wiki (there is a corresponding page in the report, but it seems not the nice graphic) in which someone has identified the following 7 “meta-trends” extending across the 5 years of reports:

communication between humans and machines
the collective sharing and generation of knowledge
games as pedagogical platforms
computing in three dimensions
connecting people via the network
the shifting of content production to users
the evolution of a ubiquitous platform

What do you think? These strike me as broadly capturing many of the dynamics and innovations we are experiencing. - SWL

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