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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

It was one of the top buzzwords, only to fall off around 2013. Now more affordable technology exists to make virtual worlds even more immersive than Second Life ever was thanks to products like Oculus Rift. Fitness trackers really didn’t become a fad until late 2013. Augmented Reality.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #257

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Simulated Worlds Will Soon Be Indistinguishable From Reality - Motherboard. What if virtual worlds are indistinguishable from real ones? That has some pretty significant ethical and social consequences--most simulations could be better than our real worlds. This is an oldie (from 2013), but I hadn't seen it.

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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

Korea is trialling robot prison guards , Toyota has unveiled 4 robot health assistants due on the market around 2013, and they’ve already got competition from the Riba healthcare robot due to 2015 , amongst others. And the other is the increased sophistication of their role in the workplace. President Obama has already announced the U.S

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

Meanwhile, dating websites and virtual worlds (e.g. Among the trends: paid search is projected to grow 15% in 2012 and 2013, followed by 13% in 2014. Shea Bennett (again) posts an infographic loaded with online usage stats, such as that 65% of adult internet users engage on social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn (vs.

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‘Fourth Transformation’ book: Brace for impact

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I reviewed their last book , “The Age of Context,” here in 2013.) Back in 2013 I did try out Google Glass and came away greatly underwhelmed. I wrote in late 2013 that it just wouldn’t happen, and Google decided to shelve Glass in January 2015. Mixed reality’: Merging the real & virtual worlds.

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