Emerging Trends Radar

This was the third session in a series of "one hour debates". It was called Emerging Trends Radar and it was focused on scenario planning for 2028 (ie 20 years from now). It was based on a presentation by Nick Jones Gartner Group Analyst. As well as the Powerpoint we looked at the Microsoft Table and mentioned a related parody. We also discussed the meaning of crowdsourcing which was mentioned in the radar screen, and the need for a collaboration tool that would enable a few of us to work on some 2028 scenarios virtually but didn’t require admin overhead or for you to proactivily search out the service – so we talked about confluence (wiki), ning (develop-me), shared drives (H Novell), document management (e-pository), VLE (blackboard) and also Community Software tools developed at other Universities including Bournemouth and Liverpool (VOCAL). Is it time to invent another one?