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What?s New?

By Simon Fodden

There was a time before Twitter, which first appeared on our radar not quite a year ago (Some Folks Are A-Twitter). Facebook was invented in 2004 and didn’t take off until some years later. There was even a time before RSS, and certainly a time before it became a routine way to pull information. And, of course, we’re told that there was indeed a time before blogging — but that’s pre-history and there’s no written record from that time…

So my question is: what is the new technology that we’re not quite seeing at the moment?

I’m not asking about trends, such as cloud computing, the semantic web or the shift to mobile computing. They’re interesting in and of themselves, but they’re extensions or developments of well-known technologies. What I’m after is the application on the horizon that has the potential to be the next fad big thing.

Or are we in a developmental lull?

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).