ANALYSIS: I spent a decade trudging through hype about 'the future'. Here's what I learned
Some of it turned out to be justified — the iPhone, cloud computing, the dominance of Facebook — while some, like Google Glass and e-government, turned out to be little more than marketing.
But times have changed. People have increasingly come to realise that technology can create as many problems as it does solutions; that"free" doesn't necessarily mean free. If you're not paying for a social media app, that's because you're the product. Firstly, we need to stop talking about the future as if it were another world — a far-off destination. The future is simply an extension of the present.
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