It started with a Yahoo! Answers question… then Leondard’s blog took up the challenge and produced a good list of products and services which in his view will become essential in five years time.
They include:
- Software as a service becomes more standard.
- Global identity framework, referred to by some as “Identity 2.0.”
- Digital Media – more and more of it, some cheap and some free, carried on many gadgets of many sizes, with wireless access to sync and stream effortlessly.
- Smart phones.
- RFID
- Self monitoring
- Personal aggregators
- Shared everything.