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Technology & Innovation — February 26, 2010

The Next Tech Revolution

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What will be the next big technology to rock the world? Put another way, where would a smart digital media investor place his or her money? In partnership with the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) conference in Munich, Big Think’s latest special series offers predictions from five tech-savvy experts, from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales to “Heroes” creator Tim Kring.

Wales has his eye on mobile space, while Kring, as a screenwriter, is most interested in technologies that allow deeper immersion in narrative worlds. David Gelernter, the Yale computer science professor and novelist, anticipates that “digital furnace s will hit it big by integrating existing media technologies. Other prophecies in the series come from Buzzmachine.com founder Jeff Jarvis and Conrad Wolfram of Wolfram Research.

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