Archive for the ‘Future / Predictions’ Category

10 Trends For 2010

If you haven’t already heard, our 10 Trends for 2010 are making their way around the interwebs at a blistering pace. (You can catch our press release here.) You can get your own copy of our 10 Trends by clicking here. Be sure to share it with your clients, coworkers, friends, and pets. What? Maybe [...]

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Thoughts on Thrift

As we get ready to wind down 2009 and look forward to a fresh new decade, we know you’ve got a lot on your mind. In particular, you have a nagging suspicion that no one will ever buy anything ever again thanks to trends like the new austerity, the new frugality, and the new unemployedity. [...]

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Sports, Illustrated

Well, at least one magazine editor has the future in focus. Here at The Awesome Blog, we’ve dedicated a handful of posts to the future of print, and cautioned that embedding videos in print will probably kill, rather than save, the medium. In so many words, we suggested that magazines need to instead consider how [...]

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Pac Man + Robots

Oh, that’s a headline that’ll grab your attention. Why are we sharing this video with you? Is it because it’s on-trend with location-based awareness? Or online-offline convergence? Or even DIY/hacker culture, which we’ll be getting into in a future Potty Posting? Well, yeah. But also, it’s just kinda awesome for a Friday.

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Everybody Gets a Projector! Everybody Gets a Projector!

It’s an exciting time in The OOC (a.k.a. the world of Online-Offline Convergence), with smartphones, tablet computers,  netbooks and other tech treats competing to be the next hot gadget. Futurists are burning plenty of bytes trying to figure out which devices will ultimately triumph in the screen wars, but we’d like to go out on [...]

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Video will save print (if it doesn’t kill it first)!

Last month, we called attention to Entertainment Weekly’s much-heralded inclusion of a video ad in their print magazine. Well, the same folks who lauded that move must be flippin’ the hell out over the video above (thanks to Nick Evans for the tip!). Proponents of “Living Art” walk us through the hypothetical magazine article of [...]

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That’s a bold statement.

This video is hardly the first entry in the “just how big will social media get?” debate, but it certainly amasses a compelling collection of data for the “social media is changing the world” camp. The video was created by Eric Qualman (who’s quite fortunate that his parents gave him a name that abbreviates to [...]

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