8 Disruptive Technologies That Will Change How You Do Business Dan Costa, Executive Editor

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@dancosta

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Three Waves of Innovation 1. Personal Computing

2. Internet

3. Mobile, Social, Location-based, Data driven

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iPad Mania. 1 Million+ units per month, 75% of the market in Q4 2010. Success driven by the platform, not the hardware.

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Web 3.0 – Data.

“ We are creating more data than ever in human history” Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn

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Mobile Wallets and Mobile Payments. Cash is no longer king - Square & Intuit let users accept credit cards on mobile devices.

NFC [Near Field Communication chips] will be built into Blackberry & Android phones, and Apple is getting in the game.

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QR Codes: Signs from the future. Bar codes are now a consumer-facing technology that enable complex, hidden information to be instantly visible.

They are also trackable.

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Augmented Reality is Real.

Real-time virtual overlay of digital information. A technology that was irrelevant until we had smartphones and iPads.

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Private Group Messaging. [no contradiction] Imagine Twitter for a closed group – improved real-time communication, and task specific IM. A searchable index of every conversation in your company – institutional memory.

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Location, location, location.

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The Game Layer. Application of Game Mechanics to… everything. Education, Marketing, Business, even Global Warming.

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Thank You! dan_costa@pcmag.com @dancosta on Twitter

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