Horizon Project

I think that this site is fantastic. I think that giving professionals a voice in their specialty is something that doesn't happen enough. I wasn't surprised about the predictions for the next year, or for the predictions for the next 2-3 years. The predictions for the next year included e-books and mobiles. I'm not sure if they did this at the beginning of the year or at the end of 2010, but e-books and mobiles have been evolving since the blackberry first came out. Augmented reality was predicted in the next 2-3 years to become very popular and I think that it will continue to be in the next 10 years. There has been augmented reality products predicted since the 90's. The problem is that most of the technology was not affordable for the average person. My dentist had an augmented reality set in 1996 that you could watch TV on when you were having your cavities drilled.These are not new technologies and I don't think that these predictions are very insightful. I suppose if they were to say that these will be readily available to all people in society that might be different. The problem is that society is not equal and many in the lower income brackets will not have access. One might hope that they would have access through education, but with the countries education cuts there is little hope of that now. :(