More rash predictions

I hope you had a good year. Now thoughts naturally turn to the future. I used to think that being a futurist would be quite a good gig; you know: fly in to somewhere nice, speculate a little about what might happen, pocket the fee, then fly out and keep a low profile elsewhere while none of it came true…?

I’ve realised though, that to do this you’ve really got to keep running (see George Clooney’s character in the excellent Up In The Air). In reality, one is inevitably going to meet some of the same people again (if […]

2021-09-23T17:06:44+00:00December 31st, 2011|Trends|1 Comment

2010: The Year Of The Tablet

What do you want for Christmas? Well apparently thousands of us will be hoping Santa brings us a tablet computer. Last year that wasn’t really an option (btw how much am I bid for a 2009 netbook?). On January 27th 2010, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed “Netbooks aren’t better at anything!” (although to be fair, Steve, most are at least pretty good at multitasking and many even support Flash). He went on, as had been widely predicted, to introduce a ‘magical and revolutionary product’: the
2021-09-23T17:05:46+00:00December 5th, 2010|Tech companies|9 Comments
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