NEXT

It is funny to read about forecast. I am not talking about weather (even if could be interesting too) but about the most promising new technologies, the upcoming revolutions. So today I read about the Gartner 2008 10 Top Strategic Technologies. Between the all 10 listed technologies I don’t find anything new. It is just a list of the most trendy today technologies, most of them hopefully will improve something, but it is absolutely not clear if they will be able to “change” our society and the justification argumented by the report is quite obvious, a brief sintax of what the research community already wrote. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to say that this report is a wasting of time. I just wonder every now and then if all these efforts spent to make this biblic reports (often wrote by very remarkable institutions, research group and other important people) got scientific value or they could be considered only a communication/PR operation