For anyone who has any stake in the ICT sector, 2005 will be a year of no surprises. The biggest trend reported by all research agencies: This year will be a year of no radical trends. A group of tech bigwigs, at a technology trends event in Silicon Valley, deliberated over the trends for the current and coming year, and came up with, self-admittedly, a set of totally
unremarkable trends. What has gone on in 2004 will continue, and maybe result in something in 2005. In fact, the phrase, "will continue," crops up quite often in our compilation of trends as well. But even so, the year ahead will see a lot of technologies that had just been launched or were in a disorganized state last year, finally taking a cohesive form, and their utilization becoming more and more mainstream.