My tech predictions for 2011

  1. First murmurs of Facebook’s eventual decline. I think Facebook’s role as the identity system of the internet has been brilliantly executed, but they too are prone to the walled-garden syndrome of wanting to keep users in to increase revenue. It will continue to grow, but the first murmurs of its eventual decline will start next year. It’s decline will likely happen when (not if) it’s role as a proprietary identity system and social graph is slowly replaced by more open alternatives. Innovation always goes from closed to open.
  2. Mobile will continue to explode. I was slow on understanding the importance of mobile, but a computer in your pocket is really the future. One of the victims of mobile in 2011 will be camera manufacturers. There’s really less and less reason to buy an actual camera, when you can buy a mobile phone for the same price.

Only two predictions, one of which everyone agrees with, so there goes, not particularly inspired today Smile

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