Here's my look into 2009, along with a look back at developments in 21st century technology (funny how 21st century technology used to conjure up images of spaceships and sci-fi). It's quite amazing to see how far we've come in less than a decade.
So, in no particular order, in 2009 I think we'll hear a lot about:
- Open ID (because we're all sick of id's)
- Google Android
- GPS based apps (because it'll hit critical mass this year and we're all looking for the killer location based app)
- Web based storage (because we all have too much love invested in our digital media)
- Cloud computing/SAAS (MS Office released in browser this year, along with IE8)
- Windows 7
- Touch interfaces (because Apple has shown us how enjoyable they can be)
- IPTV (because it's time, the tech is finally here)
- Social networking aggregation (because putting our photos on one site, video on another etc and having multiple logins and lists of friends is just plain silly)
- iPhone and iPhone pretenders (some things don't change so quickly)
