Analysts and telecom executives haven’t been highlighting extensively product and service commoditization as the main risk operators will face in the coming years driven by their marginalization into the value chain as a mere “bit pipe” provider. Meanwhile new media players are expanding their reach in the mobile space with strong and global brands threatening current operator’s revenues.
Faced with a bleak prospect, many have considered that Telco’s future is to become just a dump pipe similar to what utility companies are today. But, how true is this hypothetical and “devastating” outlook?
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Internet is evolving rapidly and in different directions. Anticipating what could happen in the web future is a constant effort for those who play a role in it.
As Marshall McLuhan famously said “We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us.”. Internet has changed many things: who we work, communicates, relate, learn, investigate, study, play, to entertain becoming an essential part of our everyday life for millions of people.
Like any technology, internet is evolving rapidly and every new step allows more people to access it, while users become are demanding more services that they would like to find on the net. Hence, companies that live in this network are always re-thinking their business and creating outstanding innovation to create more options and services.
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It looks like everyone wants to have an Application store: you see Apple celebrating three billion downloads milestone, RIM and Google launching their own apps store to support BlackBerry and Android phones respectively and even operators like China Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica exploring this avenue.
But have you thought on automobile applications store?
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Here’s my list of what I think influenced or impacted the drive of science in the last ten years. Most of these discoveries will change our life completely in the next decade in ways we couldn’t imagine ten years ago.
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During Copenhagen climate world forum Greenpeace developed a strong communicational campaign trying to create consciousness about climate change and push world leaders to take real actions against this phenomenon.
The campaign, displayed within Copenhagen airport, shows several world leaders like Obama, Merkel, and Brown among others by the year 2020 apologizing for not been able to stop the climate change at the right time. The message given by the aging politicians is clear : “ I´m sorry. We could have stopped catastrophic climate change…we didn´t.” The campaign call to action invites them to act now and change the future.
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Aging is one of the most striking mega trends changing our society in the next decade. Over the next ten years, aging and how we respond to it will increasingly affect society. The number of 65+ year olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020.
An aging population will have several implications to the society, workforce market and new technologies that will emerge.
But is also interesting to notice that elderly of tomorrow will behave different as elderly of today. Fresher, more technologically savvy, better educated seniors and a big need for elderly involvement in employment and society in general, could change the way will look aging.
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2020 workplace won’t look the same as today. We will see a more flexible, freelance based, highly collaborative and far less secure work world. It will be run by a generation with new values — and women will increasingly be at the control
Technology and the ageing population will be the main drivers of change for bringing opportunities and new ways of work like more flexible career paths and nomadic working environments. Future worker will be highly specialized and the lack of personal contact might change the culture of organizations as an important of their jobs will be teleworking. Finally will seeing a blurfed division between home, work, retail, information, entertainment.
Let me share the top 10 likely truths for the future workplace in this post.
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DNA sequencing technology could help us detect genetic predispositions to illnesses and customize treatments accordingly. Today we are just in the midst of a genetic revolution where DNA sequencing is mainly used to either do long read of hundreds of bases on genomes that have yet to be sequenced, or shorter reads that only align with a genome we have already sequenced.
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Researchers from IBM were able to simulate the cerebral cortex of a cat (the most advanced part of a mammal’s brain) trough a massive supercomputer power.
The supercomputer has 147.456 CPUs and 144 terrabytes of main memory which simulates up to 1.6 billion neurons and 8.87 trillion synapses. The simulations, which incorporate phenomenological spiking neurons, individual learning synapses, axonal delays, and dynamic synaptic channels, exceed the scale of the cat cortex creates the dawn of a new era in the scale of cortical simulations.
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Generation 2020 (by some analysts a segment born around 2000 and graduating from high school by 2020) is the latest generation made up of today’s kids and youth. Gen 2020 will face a very complex world but they are more conscious about it than any other generation before
Social researchers have studied and debate deeply about gen Y or digital natives (segment between 15-30 years) and their rapid embrace of digital technology. Neverthless, generation 2020 is the first group born into a full digital world. It’s like comparing learning a language in school with being a native speaker.
This generation is not currently part of the workforce but within a decade they will comprise 10%-15% of the workforce and and by 2025 they will be the largest generation at work.
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