' of Richard Watson ...The book offers a highly compelling view of over 220 trends happening in 8 domains. Most of the predictions look perfectly realistic, albeit that Watson leaves some room for pure (fun) speculation as well...
The book unfortunately doesn't explain Watson't way of mapping all these trends (he does so on his website:
http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/trends_and_technology_timeline_2010.pdf ). The trend map does look a bit like a map of the London underground. Though complicated at first, it still offers some compelling reading!
As soon as I finish the book I will write a full review -as usual- but in the meantime I've been watching some of Watson's presentations on Youtube. The one beneath offers the best introduction to Wtason's work -and his way of mapping the trends. It's in 3 parts, unfortunately, but it's worth the 22 minutes.
PART I:
PART II:
PART III:
the part III feed needs to be replaced:
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Thanks for noticing, Tie, I changed the source now
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