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8 Disruptive Technologies That Will Change How You Do Business Dan Costa, Executive Editor

Disruptive Technologies That Will Change your Business

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Dan Costa, executive editor for PCMag.com, gave a talk for the Frontier Project in RIchmond, VA. This presentation is his perspective on how the rapidly emerging technologies of 2011 are transforming the way we will interact with business, government, education, and healthcare.

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8 Disruptive Technologies That Will Change How You Do Business Dan Costa, Executive Editor

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@dancosta

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Three Waves of Innovation 1. Personal Computing

2. Internet

3. Mobile, Social, Location-based, Data driven

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iPad Mania. 1 Million+ units per month, 75% of the market in Q4 2010. Success driven by the platform, not the hardware.

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Web 3.0 – Data.

“ We are creating more data than ever in human history” Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn

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Mobile Wallets and Mobile Payments. Cash is no longer king - Square & Intuit let users accept credit cards on mobile devices.

NFC [Near Field Communication chips] will be built into Blackberry & Android phones, and Apple is getting in the game.

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QR Codes: Signs from the future. Bar codes are now a consumer-facing technology that enable complex, hidden information to be instantly visible.

They are also trackable.

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Augmented Reality is Real.

Real-time virtual overlay of digital information. A technology that was irrelevant until we had smartphones and iPads.

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Private Group Messaging. [no contradiction] Imagine Twitter for a closed group – improved real-time communication, and task specific IM. A searchable index of every conversation in your company – institutional memory.

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Location, location, location.

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The Game Layer. Application of Game Mechanics to… everything. Education, Marketing, Business, even Global Warming.

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Thank You! [email protected] @dancosta on Twitter

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