Mobile commerce, free shipping offers, in-store pickup promotions, and ecommerce videos will all be important trends for the 2014 Christmas shopping season, as small and mid-sized online retailers look forward to, perhaps, a 9-percent growth in sales. learn more in…
Earlier this year, Google spent $400 million to snap up AI company DeepMind, and just a few weeks ago, Twitter bought another sophisticated machine-learning startup called MadBits. learn more in techcrunch How A New Era Of Apps Will Change The…
Retailers will need to shift their focus from the type of device a consumer uses (mobile or stationary) to a consumer’s location and context. And because context will be key at a time when mobile devices come to dominate the…
1. Privacy The biggest headlines didn’t go to the hottest start up or the next big thing in product or communications, though Samsung was everywhere. They went to Privacy. SXSW secured landmark sessions with not one but three of the…
That’s the funny thing about the future. It’s never as fantastic as we hope nor as horrible as we fear. The one thing that’s for sure is that times will change and we will have to adapt. While there is…
2017 timeline of future technology predictions, prostate cancer breakthrough 2012, political and economic trends, environmental changes, 2017 calendar events, Cheops satellite 2017. learn more in future timeline Global predictions for 2017 by Future Timeline was last modified: March 20th,…
Charlie Chaplin once said that cinema was just a fad. In 1936, The New York Times wrote that a “rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” In 1955, Variety magazine stated that rock n’ roll would be…
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have developed a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease that predicts with astonishing accuracy whether a healthy person will develop the disease. Though much work still needs to be done, it is hoped the test will…
Every January, I publish my predictions for the upcoming year regarding medicine and healthcare. Usually, the majority of these predictions turn out to be valid later on, although I prefer calling them apparent trends rather than actual predictions. Here are…
A new report from Forrester Research predicts that by 2018, the portion of U.S. households with cable or satellite television will dip from its current penetration of 82% to 79%. learn more in business insider Jan 2014:By 2018, More…
