What are the top 10 disruptive technologies for the next few years? Cloud computing? Mashups?
Gartner recently did a research on the top 10 disruptive technology (which is defined as one that causes major change in ‘the accepted way of doing things’, including business models, processes, revenue streams, industry dynamics and consumer behavior) and here is the list:
- Multicore and hybrid processors
- Virtualisation and fabric computing
- Social networks and social software
- Cloud computing and cloud/web platforms
- Web mashups
- New User interface
- Ubiquitous computing
- Contextual computing
- Augmented reality
- Semantics.
Gartner makes few interesting points:
- Business IT applications will start to mirror the features found in popular consumer social software, such as Facebook and Myspace, as organisations look to improve employee collaboration and harness the customers’ feedback.
- Web mashups, which mix content from publicly available sources, will be the dominant model (80 per cent) for the creation of new enterprise applications.
- Within the next five years, information will be presented via new user interfaces such as organic light-emitting displays, digital paper and billboards, holographic and 3D imaging and smart fabric.
- By 2010, it will cost less than US$1 (EUR0.65) to add a three-axis accelerometer – which allows a device, such as Nintendo’s Wii controller, to sense when and how it is being moved – to a piece of electronic equipment.[via]
What’s your top 10 list? Do you agree with Gatner’s list?
I am interested on Cloud computing, MultiCore Processor, and Ubiquitous computing [ DAM interesting, every device in the universe will be networked ] and finally Grid Computing
How many of these are relevant to India ? My top items for India would be:
- Remote access for rural areas
- Voice recognition and support for for native languages in devices
- Low cost, low cost, low cost electronic devices – cameras, cellphones, PCs
- Intelligent traffic monitoring (not the 8051 kind
- Free cloud computing access for students from rural areas
Mahesh – if you are using a cellphone, you are using a multicore processor most likely. If you are blogging on a cellphone, you are already 90% of the way towards ubiquitous computing. The advantages of Grid computing is yet to be realised, and may not be seen publicly for many more years.
interesting …but No mention of Mobile ? or Ubiquitous computing includes mobile also .
For those who interested in Ubiquitous computing here is the PPT
–Multimodal user interface (including speech/gesture/pen/traditional io).
Hi .. Do you know any “Indian Startup” company working on developing multicore s/w ?
Chintan,
We just released a new open source tool called Trisul. Trisul is designed to help network security engineers monitor current events and investigate past incidents. Check out the project page at http://www.unleashnetworks.com/trisul/doku.php
There is an ongoing effort to redesign the above software (Trisul) for multi core processors using Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library. There is a link on that page with more info. If you would like to get involved, send an email to the project mailing list. This is a great opportunity to work on some real cutting edge high performance open source tool.