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Vol. 1, Issue No. 6, Pages 8
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FLOURISH KNOWLEDGE NETWORKING POWER PROTECTION - Editorial Dear Fitagians,
Wish you a very happy and a prosperous New Year 2014.
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very magazine is publishing technology trends or future trends for the new year 2014. Everybody is one or the other way are focusing on few key factors those who are talked about since last year and will be talked for few more years, because our industry is in a big transition. We are facing huge changes, PC to Laptops to TABs and Smart phones, Cloud centric business development, Social technologies - not networking, 3D printing and BIG data are the main topics being discussed while waiting for this change. We have also tried to give you a broader picture of 10 best bold predict i o n s worldw i d e applicable to our industry. I personally feel that year 2014 and 2015 will be years of diversity and impeccable change. As far as Indian economy is concerned we will have a major change from half way of 2014 after completion of national polls. It seems new government will boost the economy with their positive and newer ways of looking and handling the country. Younger & efficient people will come in to power to drive the country, hopeful of taking right decisions at the right time. Specially for FITAGIANs we have incorporated business and general predictions for the year 2014 according to their sun-signs. I am sure more & more people are reading FITAG Times and this addition will attract many more to be a regular reader. I also wish all of you a very happy Uttarayan. May this transition of Sun from tropic of Capricon to Tropic of Cancer produces positive and vibrant impacts to you and your family in the coming days. Enjoy reading 6th edition of FITAG Times.
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10 Bold Predictions for At the beginning of each year, it’s possible to make predictions about the future of the tech sector simply by extrapolating from data in the latest Mary Meeker Internet Trends presentation. It doesn’t require a crystal ball to realize that smartphones and tablets will replace PCs, big data will continue to grow at an exponential rate, and nations such as China will play an ever-greater role in the development of the Internet. Below is an attempt at thinking big, at imagining how a number of emerging trends may combine in unique ways to create disruptive trends in 2014.
< Google Glass becomes the must-have tech gadget of the year.
After flirting with wearable tech in 2012 and 2013, the consumer technology market is finally ready to embrace wearable computing as a full-on trend in 2014. And the biggest entrant in the wearable computing market is almost certain to be Google Glass. There’s been almost as much anti-hype as hype around Google Glass over the past 12 months, but it’s a safe bet that if Google Glass is cool enough for the runway models of DVF and the fashion spreads of Vogue, it’s also cool enough for the mainstream tech consumer who’s looking to move beyond the smartphone. Going forward, broad consumer acceptance around wearable computing — whether in the form of the latest Samsung smartwatch, Google Glass or any of the new fitness gadgets — will continue to open the door to radical innovation in the wearable computing segment. At this month’s CES event in Las Vegas, some of the most-hyped products of the year are related to “biometrics” – such as headbands, socks and bras that claim to be
able to measure your brain waves, heart rate and level of physical exertion. < Your next-door neighbor becomes a venture capitalist. The JOBS Act (aka the Crowdfunding Act) is set to go into full effect by mid2014, and that could lead to
anyone — not just a wealthy accredited investor — having the ability to invest in start-ups, anywhere in the country and in any industry. In short, it will soon be almost as easy to back a hot tech company on a new equity crowdfunding portal as it is to crowdfund a cool artistic project on Kickstarter or Indiegogo. In the process, expect to see a lot of “What’s the future of the VC industry?” articles. It’s only natural, since crowdfunding seems to have the potential to disrupt the traditional VC industry by creating an entirely new type of investor. And once it’s your temperamental next-door neighbor, and not a cooly rational Harvard MBA making the decision of where to allocate investment dollars, this could lead to some fantastic innovations being funded in coming years.
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Consider the example of the Terrafugia flying car concept, which has raised more than $10 million on the crowdfunding site Wefunder. < A commercial drone company gets anointed as “the next Apple.” The excitement around the Amazon drones delivery concept is almost certain to inspire a number of copycat imitators. After the Jeff Bezos “60 Minutes” segment at the end of the year, there was a surge in stories about possible uses for
commercial drone technology, including the story of quadcopters being used by Deutsche Post. As drones transition from being used
to take out terrorist leaders to being used to revolutionize business models, we’ll inevitably hear talk about the first generation of drone start-ups that are “the next Apple” or the “next Google.” One early frontrunner is New York-based Flyterra, which is set to start testing drones in upstate New York, making it one of the first commercial drones companies in the nation. Six states (including New York and Virginia, both home to huge tech communities) have now been cleared to host dronestesting facilities. If the first rounds of testing go well, we could soon hear talk about other states vying to host their own drones test sites, in order to get a hand in any future economic goodies that come from having a vibrant drone innovation sector.
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