Future Trends

Elon Musk vs Richard Branson: will the geek or maverick win the battle to privatise space?

Locked against each other in the race to build a space-based Internet serving the entire globe, Elon Musk and Richard Branson have monumental plans…

The impact of collaborative tools on education innovation and learning

Classroom and educational trends have undergone significant changes over the course of the past decade, and these changes affect how classes operate as well…

4 ways real-time data is disrupting the way we do business

Real-time monitoring and experience tracking have become buzz words in the digital era. Ostensibly companies that have access to this type of data ultimately…

5 levels of ethical programming that determine how well smart machines will behave

People are going to have to get used to living and working alongside smart machines. With Gartner estimating that 1.1-billion connected things will be…

5m people will use Bitcoin by 2019

While even people in the technology space might not entirely understand crypto-currency Bitcoin, you can’t ignore its rapid growth. It’s not about to slow…

The dangers of machine learning, AI can be mitigated through strong partnerships

Recent reports about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) have painted a dark picture of the future. According to some of the leading thinkers…

3 massive digital trends and how South Africa can use them to its advantage

Financial markets are in flux, cyber crime is on the rise and millennials are taking over the business world. That’s according to David Silverstein,…

People: why we need to put the fun back into gamification

The word “gamification” hasn’t been in our lexicon long, but the basic principle it’s based on — that people enjoy competing against each other…

Nice from far, but far from nice: big data can help retail bring everyone ‘up close’

It’s all about perspective. There are things, that looked at from afar seem perfect, but walk a little closer and the imperfections become glaringly…

Shared Economy may be the future of retail and selling of services

A new age of reciprocity is here as Shared Economy is starting to make its imprints. Research from popular French tech conference LeWeb shows…

Bitcoins for your business, pleasure or both

Now that the dust is starting to settle regarding the recent Bitcoin buzz and some interesting bystanders have lashed on to the story as…

Google Glass’ real promise is among the elderly

Google Glass has a promising future — although not in the markets that Google thinks it’s targeting: urban early-tech adopters — they are a…

Slipping private boundaries: how the web is changing language

“What the internet has done is to create a space for language that runs and slips over the boundary of public and private language,…

The end of work? Why we need new models to understand digital disruption

Jaron Lanier, an early internet pioneer, recently spoke with FT Business about the new digital economies, and why free information is not a good…

Engineering the Internet of Things, ‘climate responsive’ tech and serendipity

All tech giants seem to be redesigning and creating newer, smarter campuses. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo have been undergoing changes to their employees’…

What big cloud trends will impact us in the near future?

Over the past couple of years cloud computing has proven itself worthy and, although many businesses are still slow to transition, there is no…

The human body as interface, and a new language of interaction

As it stands, we have moved through a few core paradigms in terms of how we interact with computers and software. From the earliest…

Big data: the bite-sized lowdown

Reading through technology news and opinion articles today, it is pretty hard to avoid the term ‘big data,’ Harvard Business Review blog, Forbes, MIT…

Why developers are licking their chops at the prospect of smart cities

The smart city market is at a tipping point. Having been led by IT industry stalwarts such as IBM and Cisco for the last…

What Glass means for Google

Project Glass is a perfect example of what Google calls “moonshot thinking” – the type of thinking required to take on global-scale problems, define…

‘There’s a f***ing zeitgeist’: Amanda Palmer on the new music model [SXSW]

“There’s a f***ing zeitgeist going on with what’s happening in terms of art and crowd-funding right now,” states singer Amanda Palmer. “Everyone is getting…

The danger of augmenting reality

Augmented reality (AR) is not new, it’s a concept that has been around for ages and has seen a massive rise in popularity along…

A return to honesty: grappling with the future of online porn [SXSW]

Everyone on the internet looks at porn. You do, I do, but more worryingly, so do children of very young ages. Given the unchecked…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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