CSC Corp. has issued a press release on Wednesday listing its 10 most disruptive technologies. While geared toward business, it has relevance for the government. Some are obvious and others not so. CSC sent an email of explaining the 10 disruptive technologies, including a YouTube video interview of Alex Fuss, a researcher who works in CSC' Leading Edge Forum.
Here's CSC's list, verbatim, as sent to Nextgov:
1. New media is breaking down traditional big media, giving voice to millions of individuals and unleashing new talent and creativity. Related to this, viral video and new media channels such as blogs offer businesses a radical new way to bring their messages to the market, changing distribution just as profoundly as the Internet redefined the brochure.2. Virtual and physical reality are blending to form a new reality. In this augmented reality, work will seem more like a game, workplace experimentation will increase, and super-collaborative skills will become paramount in the workforce.
3. Social power is enabling businesses to solve problems faster and more effectively using corporate social networks to find people and expertise quickly.
4. Information transparency is unleashing new applications and innovations that break down information stovepipes and bring deeper visibility to transactions, processes, people and assets. Such transparency, though not without privacy concerns, yields a more enlightened view from being able to gather, integrate and analyze information from disparate, previously "locked up" sources.
5. The Internet is making traditional TV and AM/FM radio obsolete. Software defined- and cognitive radio will enable new devices that can negotiate the air waves on-the-fly as needed.
6. 3D printing will enable anyone to print out toys, parts, designs and more from the Web.
7. Molecular computing will lead to breakthroughs in biomedicine: researchers have already developed a molecular computer that uses enzymes to perform calculations from within the human body.
8. Cloud computing is replacing the world's data centers.
9. Semantics will make information more meaningful (digitally), make applications more interoperable, and offer innovative ways for businesses to expand their services to the world.
10. The Web will evolve towards a reasoning engine, making decisions for us as well as predictions and recommendations that enhance our own decision-making.
COMMENTS
I think RFID or noninvasive ID is also a significant disruptive technology. It has the ability to make an impact on many aspects of our life...how many of us have keyless entry and ignition on our cars already?
voice_in_dc 10/25/08 01:46 pm ET
Computers, despite their increasing power, sophistication and disruptiveness are still incapable of teaching people that the word 'THAN' is not spelled 'THEN'
Geoff 10/23/08 07:50 pm ET
Item 2: Work is already a video game where I work. People with a talent for pointing and clicking at easy-to-use software implementing crappy risk models are valued highly. Managers don't care about the quality of the models as long as numbers are produced.
Item 7: Dune fans everywhere will recognize molecular computing as the beginning of the mentat class.
Vic 10/23/08 12:26 pm ET
But will IT contractors ever learn to communicate in clear english, using the commonly accepted definitions of words?
Simple Simon 10/23/08 09:30 am ET
A good list, I agree with most of them.
I especialy agree with the move towards augmented reality.
Computers have always been a meta-tool, a tool of tools. A device that can emulate other devices.
AR will only extend this trend...allowing computers to emulate more of our day to day tools and tasks, ones not confined to a single location.
"The Web will evolve towards a reasoning engine,"
I think this will be more true then we can yet appriciate.
Darkflame 10/23/08 08:11 am ET