From What's Next: Top Trends:
Here, after what to me feels like an eternity, is my table of
disruptive technologies, which is designed to make people think, at
least periodically. If nothing else I’m sure it will be a catalyst for a
few debates, not least some arguments about what is and isn’t included
and where things are positioned in terms of impact and time.
The idea for this table initially came from stumbling upon a list of
emerging technologies on Wikipedia. This felt fairly accurate, but also
fairly dry and lifeless. Using this as a start point I did some desk
research to identify candidate technologies and then spoke with
colleagues and academics at Imperial College to validate my thinking.
This was the easy bit. The tricky bit was deciding what not to include
and how to rank each technology.
Here’s how it works.
The table consists of 100 potentially disruptive technologies, which
are defined as technologies capable of significant social, economic or
political upheaval.
One axis (Y Axis) ranks potential for disruption from high to low,
while the other (X Axis) is time ranked from sooner to later, although
importantly this does not relate to the invention of a technology, but
rather its common use or ubiquity....MUCH MORE
