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By the 1980s, we were supposed to travel by jet-pack while robot housekeepers cooked our meals. At least that’s the high-tech view of the future that science fiction writers presented in the 1950s. Today, the future isn’t such a distant vision: it’s happening in our lifetimes.
The Lemelson-MIT Program, which celebrates innovation and inventors, recently polled high school students on their view of the future. Virtually all of them predicted dramatic technological advancements during their lifetimes and most felt comfortable dealing with those rapid changes.
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This is another one of those exponential growth markets. The story is here. There were one million people in the U.S. downloading podcasts in 2004. There were five million in 2005. This is projected to grow to 9.3 million in 2006 and 20.9 million people in 2007. By 2010, this number is projected to be 62.8 million.
Exponential growth in markets creates exponential growth in marketing. It will get interesting. Oh, and by the way, anybody thinking this is a geeks-only market should read the story. The most likely to have listened to a podcast in the last week were women.
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The pull of the big screen seems to be diminishing according to this AOL Entertainment story. There is nothing quite like seeing a good movie on a big screen with a honkin’ huge sound system that rattles your chair. However, many entertainment venues have their time, and perhaps the Silver Screen has reached its apogee.
The AOL story said movie attendance declined 6 percent in 2005 which is the biggest dip in twenty years. This same story also cites an Associated Press-AOL poll from last summer that reveals 73 percent of adults would prefer watching a movie at home on DVD or pay-per-view. This would certainly point to a substantial reason for the decline.
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The Steve Jobs 2006 Macworld keynote begins in just a little under two hours, this is the day of the year that Mac faithful stop whatever they’re doing for about an hour to watch their screens refresh. Of course it wasn’t that long ago we could actually watch the event live via QuickTime but I guess Steve doesn’t like all that attention. Rumors this year span everything from gigantic 50” plasma displays with OS X built in to iBooks sporting Intel processors, but the one I’m hoping for is a new Mac Mini with DVR functionality built-in.
If you can’t wait for the rest of the tech news sites to post the new Apple gadgetry there are plenty of sites to keep open starting at 9 am pacific time. Mac Rumors, MacScoop, Gizmodo and Engadget have all been known to provide pretty good live coverage in the past.
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A U.S. citizen has his or her privacy protected through legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Financial Privacy Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the National Do Not Call Registry.
However, it appears the telephone numbers of people you call or who call you are not protected. They should be. I can’t believe this company has a right to do this or how they get the info. As I said in the headline, it’s scary.
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