This time of year, with the turning points and new beginnings, & combined with a little holiday reflection time, seems to engender reflections upon what technology and social trends might characterize our coming 2014 year.
Seems to me that the world has now produced and disseminated many personal data-collection technology devices. The 'Internet of Things' is being more and more established. Each of these new technology devices has its unique and specific purpose, but many also are in effect little sensors recording social activity and environment data. Because of the Internet of Things it means they now interconnect more and more, producing and enabling Big-Data. For the first time, many people now carry sensors of all kinds that report back to home-base. This is either socially intentional like navigation, or a secondary function and owner unknown, and, simply an operational fact of normal utilization. Here my main point point is the world now has billions of electronic sensors, all reporting back both specific-data and meta-data. And, all this data is being collected. Hence in my view, 2014 will be the year of the data-scientist. By that I mean, we will begin to see the rapid and extensive rise of folks whose whole career involves the collection, and, data analysis, of all our Internet of Things. Thars is gold in them thar hills of world digital data. So, IT people will not only run machines anymore, but fundamentally gather accurate information to help business make best-business decisions so that they can adjust their business in real time, based on this information. If used well they'll be able to spot trends and opportunities far faster than they could in the past. Also of course thus greatly applies to governments. Secondly privacy will also play a role in the evolution of the Internet of Things and in which consumers and business currently don't see eye to eye. According to one ISACA report consumers are mostly concerned about hackers accessing their information whereas most IT professionals surveyed believe consumers should be concerned about not knowing whom can access their data information and how data will be used by the companies collecting it. This means businesses selling tech devices and services will need to be calming a customers fear in two ways: assuring them that their products are secure, and also establishing trust in how they'll use this data. With the growing attention on the use of customer's data this will be one key issue for the 2014 tech market's future imho. www.arnnet.com.au/article/535081/gadgets_can_hear_track_watch_dominate_ces Cheers, Stephen Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
