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    100 Top Trendsfor the 21st Century

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    Presented to the Minnesota Futurists

    6 Sept 2008David Keenan

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    Top Ten Business TechnologyTrends for the 21st Century

    Managing the convergence of 21st-century Power Tools-computers, networks, biotech, and nanotech-will create thehighest yield market opportunities for future business.

    Shaping customer relationships and enhancing customersatisfaction through the use of technology innovation will be

    business-critical for every enterprise. Every business that wants to survive in the future must learn to

    evolve into an E-business: communicating, servicing,distributing, and marketing on the Net.

    The convergence of the TV, computer, Net, and telephone will

    result in new business models, markets, and electronicchannels that will revolutionize business.

    The social impact of leading-edge technology on a longer-living, digitally savvy, globally connected marketplace willprovide many new opportunities.

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    Top Ten Business TechnologyTrends for the 21st Century

    Real-time agility-how fast an enterprise can embrace leading-edge technology-will determine the efficiency, speed, and cost-effectiveness of its operations.

    High-performance education about leading-edge technologysolutions will become a central strategy for all companies.

    Managing rapidly emerging technological change within anorganization will be one of the central capabilities for everyoneacross the enterprise.

    Technology-enabled products and services that incorporatedeep customer contact, on-demand choices, and intuitive

    interaction will drive business success. Learning to celebrate technology innovation, risk taking, and

    out-of-the-box thinking will be business-critical for the 21st-century enterprise.

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    Top Ten Computer Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Computers will become powerful extensions of human beingsdesigned to augment intelligence, learning, communications,and productivity.

    Computers will become intuitive---they will "learn," "recognize,"and "know" what we want, who we are, and even what wedesire.

    Computer chips will be everywhere, and they will becomeinvisible-embedded in everything from brains and hearts, toclothes and toys.

    Computers will manage essential global systems, such astransportation and food production, better than humans will.

    Online computer resources will enable us to downloadapplications on-demand via wireless access anywhere andanytime.

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    Top Ten Computer Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Computers will become voice-activated, networked, video-enabled, and connected together over the Net, linked witheach other and humans.

    Computers will have digital senses-speech, sight, smell,hearing-enabling them to communicate with humans and othermachines.

    Neural networks and other forms of artificial intelligence willmake computers both as smart as humans, and smarter forcertain jobs.

    Human and computer evolution will converge. Syntheticintelligence will greatly enhance the next generations of

    humans. As computers surpass humans in intelligence, a new digital

    species and a new culture will evolve that is parallel to ours.

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    Top Ten Internet Trendsfor the 21st Century

    The Net will become the first global knowledge networkconnecting billions of people with an unlimited number ofchannels.

    Anyone can become a Net publisher or broadcaster ofinformation on any subject and potentially reach an audienceanywhere on the globe.

    The convergence of the Net, digital TV, and wireless phoneswill support interactive multimedia features that will transformbusiness and society.

    Direct real-time voice and video communications will greatlyboost the Net's value as a tactical tool for business.

    Net usage will accelerate, as low-cost, high-speed bandwidthbecomes readily available over Fat Pipes of streamingmultimedia.

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    Top Ten Internet Trendsfor the 21st Century

    The ability to feel and sense 3-D virtual places, things, andpeople will drive universal adoption of the Net.

    Access to information on any subject will be availableanywhere over the Net and delivered by a variety of media

    appliances. The Net will change lifestyles by providing many more choices

    for living and virtually tele-collaborating with anyone,anywhere.

    Private cybercommunities, virtual private networks that cater topeople's niche interests, will become popular "places" to live

    and work. Education, entertainment, health, and lifestyle pursuits will be

    reshaped by the Net as billions of people communicate andshare information.

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    Top Ten Electronic EducationTrends for the 21st Century

    Electronic education via the Net will enable interconnectedlearning experiences, choices, and opportunities for billionsworldwide.

    Educational content will be delivered by new computer,interactive TV, satellite, and Internet technologies in the newmillennium.

    Interactive online multimedia and multidimensional content willrevolutionize learning.

    Self-paced, self-directed individualized virtual learning willdominate business training.

    Students and teachers will prefer on-demand virtual learning to

    traditional school programs

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    Top Ten Electronic EducationTrends for the 21st Century

    Corporations will prefer Net-based training where workers canlearn at their own pace.

    Virtual Reality scenarios that depict real-world and fantasyexperiences will increase the learning impact for all types ofeducation.

    Real-time Net chats with other global learners will make virtualeducation a satisfying social experience beyond the limits oftime and distance.

    Teachbots-smart agents-will transform education, providingpersonalized guidance when and where people need it.

    People will learn to design their own electronic learning

    programs, which will increase their understanding, skills,creativity, and career choices.

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    Top Ten Entertainment Trendsfor the 21st Century

    New digital technologies will reshape the economics,production, distribution, and marketing of the entertainmentindustry.

    Traditional media enterprises must learn to adapt new Internetand computer technologies to maintain competitiveness.

    The convergence of the Net with TVs, telephones, kiosks,autos, and wireless devices will create many new mediachannels.

    On-demand interactive entertainment content that ispersonalized for our preferences will be a standard feature.

    Advanced virtual reality bundled with digital agents and

    holographic entertainment worlds will transform our experienceof entertainment.

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    Top Ten Entertainment Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Movie theaters will receive digital broadcasts and satellitedownloads of movies, video conferencing, and other interactiveprogramming.

    Faster, smarter, and more powerful multimediacommunications devices will enhance our capacity forproducing and distributing entertainment.

    Digital TV will provide new programs where we will experiencereal-time participation with the media content, personalities,and shows.

    Edutainment, the merger of entertainment and education, willoffer a new genre of programming that will be greatly in

    demand. Nontraditional entertainment producers, empowered by Power

    Tools, will change the industry, offering new products,channels, and innovations.

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    Top Ten Health Care Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Most hospitals, clinics, trauma centers, physicians, andpatients will be connected to one large network enablingaccess to critical medical information.

    Consumer health information, accessible over a variety of Netchannels, will become the most in-demand content worldwide.

    The medical industry will face an ethical and social dilemmaover the disclosure of patient information. Health-care professionals, available via remote Internet

    connections, will provide services to millions of people whowere previously under-served.

    Medicalbots, nonhuman intelligence agents, will dispense

    medical care to patients and doctors worldwide to save moneyand share expertise.

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    Top Ten Health Care Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Advanced nano-biology and genetic technology will eliminatemany diseases, accelerate healing, and increase longevity. Bio-engineered food will help promote health and longevity. A new generation of smart drugs, implants, and medical

    devices will enhance our health and performance.

    Virtual-reality medical simulations will become the dominantmode of medical training. Cyber-health care that is customized for us-designed to

    monitor, diagnose, educate, and intervene regardless oflocation or time-will be common.

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    Top Ten Nanotechnology Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Nanotech enterprises will provide the ultimate convergence ofcomputers, networks, and biotech, and create products neverbefore even imagined.

    Nano-devices-invisible, intelligent, and powerful-will be used inevery industry redefining the limits of what's possible.

    Nanotech food compilers will create on-demand, low-cost,quality meals by assembling atoms into food.

    Smaller than the head of a pin, surgical nanobots will operatefrom within the human body.

    Nano-biology will prolong life, prevent illness, and increasepeople's health.

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    Top Ten Nanotechnology Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Nano-enhanced humans will have physical, intellectual, andsensing powers superior to other humans. Nanotech will provide a cheap and available source of energy. Nano-factories will build on-demand products in an

    inexpensive, flexible, and rapid process.

    Nanotech will revolutionize the global economy, providingPower Tools that will produce high-tech products with low-costand low-tech resources.

    Nanotech will create new choices that will alter humanevolution, raise dramatic ethical issues, and challenge socialnorms.

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    Top Ten Biotech Trendsfor the 21st Century

    By 2020, we will decipher the human genome, the blueprint ofour DNA. Genetic solutions to human ills will be highly prized intellectual

    property. New biotech drugs will save countless lives and eliminate

    many diseases. We will create designer babies with altered genes to enhance

    their capabilities and eliminate unwanted characteristics. We will learn to turn on and off certain genes to influence

    performance and health.

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    Top Ten Biotech Trendsfor the 21st Century

    The convergence of biotech and computers will accelerate thegenetic redesign of all living things.

    We will learn to clone organs to enhance health and longevity. Privacy issues about access to individuals' genetic data will

    cause conflicts among people, business, and governments.

    Careers, relationships, and opportunities will be influenced bygenetic heritage. Biotech for human enhancement will be the most profitable

    industry in the 21st century.

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    Top Ten Robotic Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Robots in both physical and electronic forms will becomeintegrated into our society.

    Robots will express functional emotions and reasoning. Advanced robots-androids-will appear similar to human beings

    and fill roles in commerce, community, and government.

    Robotic efficiency and precision will transform manufacturing,medicine, space travel, research, and industry and displaceskilled human labor.

    The robotics industry will become a multi-billion dollar globalbusiness, spawning many new careers and businessopportunities.

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    Top Ten Robotic Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Human beings will adopt robotic human enhancements toachieve superhuman capabilities.

    Cyborgs-part human, part robot-will develop skills superior tonatural humans to meet the demand of specialized jobs.

    We will encounter serious ethical, security, and social issuesdue to our robotic creations.

    Robots will provide convenience, safety, and productivity thatwill benefit humanity and profoundly impact lifestyles.

    Androids will achieve a basic level of self-awareness.

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    Top Ten Space Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Many innovations will be developed by space enterprises thatwill accelerate the establishment of a global space market.

    New energy sources developed to navigate space willaccelerate the exploration of our galaxy enabling us to exploredeep space.

    Miniaturized cost effective spacecraft will explore the stars longbefore humans are capable of venturing out into deep space.

    Space mining will yield new resources, elements, andmaterials that will enhance the quality of life on our planet.

    Robonauts, robot astronauts, will stretch our imaginations withfantastic information from their space adventures and be our

    new heroes.

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    Top Ten Space Trendsfor the 21st Century

    Humans will learn to leave their home planet of Earth,terraform faraway planets, and colonize space.

    Extremely valuable space assets, from materials and drugs tominerals and innovations, will create a space race amongglobal companies.

    First contact with alien life through the identification of lifesupporting planets may come closer to becoming a possibility.

    Space discoveries will have a profound impact on theadvancement of human science, medicine, education,entertainment, and culture.

    The exploration of space will spark a new "big picture"

    understanding of human evolution and human destiny as wereach out into the galaxy.

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    Top 10 Trendsof The Extreme Future

    Fueling the Future - The energy crisis, the post-oil future, and thefuture of energy alternatives like hydrogen. The critical role thatenergy will play in every aspect of our lives in the 21st century.

    The Innovation Economy - The transformation of the globaleconomy based on the convergence of free trade, technology anddemocracy, driving new jobs, new markets, globalization,

    competition, peace and security. The Four Power Tools of theInnovation Economy are Nano-Bio-IT-Neuro.

    The Next Workforce - How the workforce of the U.S. is becomingmore multicultural, more female and more Hispanic. Why the futureworkforce must embrace innovation to become globally competitive.

    Longevity Medicine - The key forces that will radically alter medicinesuch as nanotech, neurotech, and genomics, leading to longer andhealthier lives.

    Weird Science - How science will transform every aspect of ourlives, culture and economyfrom teleportation to nanobiology tomultiple universes.

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    Top 10 Trendsof The Extreme Future

    Securing the Future - The top threats to our freedom and our lives,from hackers to terrorists to mind control. Defining the risk landscapeof the 21st century.

    The Future of Globalization - The new realities of global trade andcompetition; the rise of China and India; the clash of cultures andideologies; and the cultural-economic battle for the future.

    The Future of Climate Change - How the environment is changingand how we need to prepare for increased global warming, pollution,and threats to biodiversity.

    The Future of the Individual - The risks and challenges frominstitutions, governments, and ideologies in the struggle for human

    rights and the freedom of the individual in the 21st century. The Future of America - The power of America and its destiny to

    champion global democracy, innovation, human rights and freemarkets.

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    Top 10 Trendsof The Extreme Future

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