Top Ten Tech Trends via @churchillclub
- Trend 1: Millennia’s are here. Everything is changing rapidly. Grad class was born with Internet however young folks’ habits won’t be disruptive
- Trend 2: Advanced batteries will be the most popular alternative energy investment
- Trend 3: Unstructured data deluge creates the next great information leaders - who’s data is it, who’s privacy is it?
- Trend 4: Wireless broadband will be one of the only IT sectors to see increased funding (panel votes no)
- Trend 5: Maintech not “cleantech” Capitalism based increasing carbon efficiency of global GDP
- Trend 6: Power and efficiency management services will see a flowering of investment and innovation
- Trend 7: The triumph of the distributed web; the power of you (not just for this year)
- Trend 8: Healthcare administration
- Trend 9: Consumption of digital goods on mobile devices is THE growth story of the coming decade = applications
- Trend 10: Electronic displays will prove the hottest investment in hardware this year and the next
- Trend 11: Bonus trend: DC (as in Washington, D.C.) will prove to be a poor VC
- Trend 12: Bonus trend: Journalism needs a solution (maybe micropayments) but consumers expect things to be free.
- Via Churchillclub Twitter @ Top Ten Tech Event
