Comments on: More Forrester Bullshit

By: Commoncents

Commoncents — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:37:37 +0000

I would hope that in ten years we will be using the collective knowledge and wisdom of the crowd to do more than poke someone.

By: Carla Thompson

Carla Thompson — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:41:26 +0000

@robojiannis you beat me to the punch. I was just thinking as I read this: Social networks in ten years? Who will care? All the really interesting conversations happening right now are about AI and semantics and a smarter Web in general. Facebook will be following *us* around in 10 years.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:02:48 +0000

If you look at what universities and research labs are developing today it’s going to be a very different future in 10 years, especially if you take into consideration Kurzweil’s predictions.

You might find this interesting, it’s a link to BT’s futurology department

http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/timeline/index.htm

By: robojiannis

robojiannis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:42:40 +0000

If there were a prediction to be made for the next years, I would say it would definetely not be social networks.
The semantic web is on the way and the web of data is one more distant vision.
If we could make a prediction – and I agree, I think we can’t – it would be that the web 2.0 bubble is about to burst.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:56:55 +0000

“In my opinion, discussing the long-term future of Facebook and the social network itself may be about as productive as it would have been to discuss the long-term future of Geocities in 1998″

That’s exactly what I was thinking when I read the quote about the 10-year prediction. My first thoughts were “damn what was I doing 10 years ago” and I realized I was on AOL dial-up writing little scripts to boot people offline. Flash forward to now where I write scripts to manage users signing up for websites, and it’s a total mind fuck. I need a new profession. I wonder what Forrester’s 10-year outlook on that is…