aquarius’ Fortune Cookies: The Top 50 Trends for 2015

What will the Digital Business look like in 2015? Well, there are exciting times ahead!

  • Smartphones will be the main access point to the internet
  • eBooks are becoming mainstream
  • Ad Sales in Social Net equals Ad Sales in Content Sites
  • Touch screens proliferate into all types of digital devices
  • Multi-touch becomes the new interface fad
  • Speech recognition helps when hands can’t
  • Augmented reality helps to explain the world around us
  • Real time search growth
  • Micro blogging becomes the way to inform the personal relevant set
  • Online video surpasses terrestrial TV
  • New mobile video contents emerge to serve the “smallest screen”
  • Online measurement tools drive decision making in marketing & sales
  • eHealth improves patient experience at lower costs
  • Web based collaboration tools help the world to become flatter
  • Collective memory of our private and professional lives growth on the web
  • B2B marketplaces reduce SME transaction costs, while increasing competition
  • Price transparency increases in most markets as eCommerce proliferates
  • Books will not disappear
  • Geographical web allows us to find places, people and possibly ourselves
  • GPS technology allows virtual world to be anchored in the real world
  • Device convergence continues to simplify our lives
  • Mobile web is faster than wired web
  • Always on becomes the way of the white collar worker
  • Silver surfers become dominant online users in ageing societies
  • We all provide user generated content
  • Open community standards simplify community setup
  • Personal privacy laws will be updated to deal with the digital world
  • Clouds are increasingly used to store our data
  • Software services simplify the work of SMEs
  • The growth in flat rates reduce the variable telecommunication costs to zero
  • Filtering of information will drive productivity in offices
  • Asia will be the largest eCommerce market in the world
  • Personalized content will allow people to focus in an over informed world
  • eRecommendation growth in driving personal behavior
  • eEducation improves teaching standards at reduced teaching costs
  • Apps-Sales bigger than Office-Software-Sales
  • Data mashups improve data meaning
  • Intelligent devices reduce CO2 emissions further
  • Marketing works! We will know which 50% didn´t work.
  • Craft returns into consumer markets as eCommerce reduces marketing costs
  • Video conferencing reduces travel needs
  • Offices become more virtual
  • Social web exposes product problems quickly
  • Viral effects become predictable
  • China is leading mobile web
  • India overtakes US in online reach
  • Mobile phone substitutes creditcards
  • Touchscreen-watches as mobile web access