This is a 15-20 minute presentation I gave at ASIS&T 2006 in Vancouver BC. The idea was to cover emergency trends related to information architecture, that is the art of expressing a model or concept of information used in activities that require explicit details of complex systems. Eyes on the Future: Trends in Information Technology Jeannette Kopak, Nick Finck, Sandra Hirsh, and Brian Fling This panel session will engage industry leaders in a discussion about their views on future trends in information technology. Speakers will represent diverse sectors, specifically Internet and New Media Technology, Information Architecture, Social Media, and Mobile. Some key questions the panel will address include: • What exciting new technologies and products are on the horizon? • What user-oriented issues should we be aware of? • What social and ethical concerns may impact people and companies? • What are the growth areas for the next decade? The session will be interactive and the audience will be encouraged to contribute their own thoughts on the future of IT and its potential impact on researchers and professionals in the field.

1. ASIS&T 2009
e Future of IA
Nick Finck, November 9, 2009

2. ASIS&T 2009
1) Data
2) Transparency
3) Context
4) Tools

3. ASIS&T 2009
Death by Data

4. Getty Images's Hulton Archive
60,000,000 images & 30,000 hours of footage

5. Twitter, MicroLocal News Blog, NetNewsWire, CoTweet, Google Wave

6. ASIS&T 2009
The Transparency
Movement

7. The Death of Lies

8. ASIS&T 2009
e naked transparency movement
marries the power of network
technology to the radical decline in the
cost of collecting, storing, and
distributing data.
- Lawrence Lessig
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9. ASIS&T 2009
The Context is still
Important

12. ASIS&T 2009
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What is Next?

13. Augmented Reality with Location Based Services

14. Augmented Reality with Visual Recognition

16. Nintendo Wii

17. Microsoft’s Project Natal

18. Microsoft Surface

19. Oblong's g-speak
Spatial Operating Environment

20. Sixth Sense
Wearable Gestural Interface

22. ASIS&T 2009
The Tools We Have

23. OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio

24. Konigi
Stencils, Template, and Icons

25. Expression Blend, iRise, Balsamiq Mockups, Axure RP Pro

26. ASIS&T 2009
The Tools Need To
Catch Up

27. ASIS&T 2009
The Best tool
continues to be your
Brain

28. ASIS&T 2009
Thank you!

29. ASIS&T 2009
e Future of IA
Nick Finck
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