I don’t know who said, “It can be dangerous to make predictions . . . especially about the future,” but I suspect that if I did a search I’d find it was Yogi Berra. Making predictions aren't always what they are cracked up to be, in part because too often they involve simply identifying technologies or uses that are growing today and “predicting” that they will grow larger in the future. I even tried my hand at this earlier this year when I offered some prognostications about future technology trends in a blog post.
The trick with technology predictions, I think, is to put the technology trends you might identify as being important on a lower rung of importance and focusing instead on connecting the dots between people and the technology. What needs do people have today and how might those be addressed by various technologies? How are societal needs changing? What changes in demographics may impact our society and how might technology address those changes?
It is never easy to make predictions that stand the test of time, but I think these ruminations by Shadman Zafar, one of our tech gurus at Verizon, are very thoughtful and focus a lot on what needs people have that technology might address. We also offer predictions about key technology trends both for business and residential customers. We certainly won’t be totally wrong or right in these predictions but it will be fun to look back at what might have changed, and I'd be interested in feedback and where you see these trends going.
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