The New Media Consortium is a non-profit dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Their members are mostly colleges and universities, but they also have corporate members. They recently released their 2008 Horizon Report, which "charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression." Their time frame is the next 5 years.
The report covers 6 key emerging technologies:
- Grassroots video
- Collaboration web
- Mobile Broadband
- Data Mash-ups
- Collective Intelligence
- Social Operating Systems
I found the section on social operating systems to be the most interesting. They describe this as:
"The essential ingredient of next generation social networking, social operating systems, is that they will base the organization of the network around people, rather than content. This simple conceptual shift promises profound implications for the academy, and for the ways in which we think about knowledge and learning."
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