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.

1. 8 Disruptive Technologies
That Will Change How You
Do Business
Dan Costa, Executive Editor

2. @dancosta
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3. Three Waves of Innovation
1. Personal Computing
2. Internet
3. Mobile, Social, Location-based, Data driven
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4. 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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5. Web 3.0 – Data.
“ We are creating more data than ever in human history”
Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Location, location, location.
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11. The Game Layer.
Application of Game Mechanics to… everything.
Education, Marketing, Business, even Global Warming.
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12. Thank You!
dan_costa@pcmag.com
@dancosta on Twitter
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