The Horizon Report – 2009
Jan 27th, 2009 by Chulin Meng
Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 32-page 2009 Horizon Report is available at no charge under the Creative Commons license.
Full-text PDF file: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/PR-2009-Horizon-Report.pdf
Table of Contents
Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………3
■ Technologies to Watch
■ Key Trends
■ Critical Challenges
■ The Horizon Project
Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
■Mobiles………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8
■Cloud Computing…………………………………………………………………………………………….11
Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
■Geo-Everything………………………………………………………………………………………………15
■The Personal Web…………………………………………………………………………………………..19
Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
■Semantic-Aware Applications………………………………………………………………………..23
■Smart Objects………………………………………………………………………………………….27
Methodology………………………………………………………..30
2009 Horizon Project Advisory Board………………………………32