Just How Fast Does Our World Change!!

Been doing a little background surfing for technology and social trends. The following three video's overlap in a lot of content but there is some good unique stuff in each. The really scary thing however is that they are already out of date in a lot of respects!!

The 6 tribes of Homo Digitalis

UK's mobile and broadband provider TalkTalk have up with the University of Kent to conduct the first Digital Anthropology Report, in search of homo digitalis. The aim was to go beyond traditional research methods and get a true understanding of how technology fits into people’s lives, by looking at people’s attitudes and behaviours to technology and communications more generally.

There are some people who think that modern technology is always a bad thing, damaging human relationships and causing us to spend more time in front of a screen and less time face-to-face with other people. On the other hand, the technology behind the screen allows us to stay in touch with people who were previously very difficult or wholly impossible to reach.

They found six distinct “clusters” of consumers, which we called our Six Tribes. Download full report

Contactless mobile payments

This is a very detailed paper on the evolution of contactless mobile payments by Stephen J. Ezell a senior analyst with the information technology and innovation foundation (itif). It's long but well worth a read, download pdf

What next for the internet

This is a must read presentation for anyone interested in the evolution of the internet and the coming trends for 2010. Download

10 Consumer Trends For 2010

Some good insight into the social trends that could infleunce products and services in 2010 from trendwatching.com/