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.
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