2010 Horizon Report - What Tech Is Coming & When?

The annual Horizon Report examines trends in information technology adoption and makes predictions in 1-year, 2-3-years, and 4-5-years horizons of likely adoption and impact to higher education. If your planning in any way is affected by technology changes (and whose isn't?) then you will want to download the 2010 Horizon Report and at least scan it.

For example, about gesture-based computing (4-5-year horizon) the report has this to say:

For nearly forty years, the keyboard and mouse have been the primary means to interact with computers. The Nintendo Wii in 2006 and the Apple iPhone in 2007 signaled the beginning of widespread consumer interest in — and acceptance of — interfaces based on natural human gestures. Now, new devices are appearing on the market that take advantage of motions that are easy and intuitive to make, allowing us an unprecedented level of control over the devices around us. Cameras and sensors pick up the movements of our bodies without the need of remotes or handheld tracking tools. The full realization of the potential of gesture-based computing is still several years away, especially for education; but we are moving ever closer to a time when our gestures will speak for us, even to our machines.

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