Earlier this year, Fortune magazine had an article on the top 10 trends to watch out for.
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My guess is that this might have been an intern project there as there was no positive correlation between some of the points in the list. I agree strongly with atleast two of those. Smart Dust and digital convergence. These are two very definitive trends that are still adopted onyl by a tiny fraction of hte consumers. Smart Dust ( http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,79572,00.html ) are < 5 mm MEMS developed initially by the Robotics Lab in Carnegie Mellon University. There is also a start up called Dust Inc or somethign that is attempting to commercialize the technology.  This reminds me of the book “Innovator's Dilemma” that talks about the reason why successful  companies fail and why they often fail to latch on to disruptive trends. So what are the disruptive trends in our industry now ? MEMS based wireless communication is surely one, iPOD like multi use personal devices are one, home entertainment ( like the windows Media Center PCs ) are one, nanoTech is probably one far out on the horizon...Lets see if we can come up with more.