This document discusses emerging technologies including Web 2.0, Web 3.0, social networks, web collaboration, mobile broadband, crowdsourcing, and provides an assignment to create a PowerPoint presentation about one of these technologies or trends, explaining how it affects people, business, or society, and why it is important, using examples and media.

1. Emerging Technology
PowerPoint Assignment

2. Web 2.0 and 3.0
• Web 2.0 is about
revolutionary new ways of
creating, collaborating,
editing and sharing user-generated
content online.
• Web 3.0 is defined as the
creation of high-quality
content and services
produced by gifted
individuals using Web 2.0
technology as an
enabling platform.

3. Social Networks
• A dedicated website
or other application
that enables users to
communicate with
each other by posting
information,
comments,
messages, images,
etc.

4. Web Collaboration
• Web collaboration
provides an
organization with the
capability to
collaborate with
customers or
internally via the
Internet in real time.

5. Mobile broadband and
telecommunication technology
• Mobile broadband is
the marketing term for
wireless Internet
access through a
portable modem,
mobile phone, USB
wireless modem,
tablet or other mobile
devices.

6. Crowdsourcing
• Crowdsourcing is the
process of getting
work or funding,
usually online, from a
crowd of people. The
word is a combination
of the words 'crowd'
and 'outsourcing'. The
idea is to take work
and outsource it to a
crowd of workers.

7. Assignment
• Create an informational PowerPoint
presentation. Include:
– Overview of a technology or trend
– How it effects people, business, or society
– Why it’s an important trend for society
– Provide examples
– Use media to support the presentation