Yesterday I appeared on the Australia national breakfast program Today , talking about what we can expect in social media and technology in 2012. You can see the clip below, or on the Today Show Video page , under the title Social Trends for 2012. Social media Social networks Social trends Technology trends MORE >>

Now, technological and social change are poised to accelerate far beyond what we have become accustomed to. Just one dimension is the manifold ethical dilemmas that are raised by gaining extraordinary technological capabilities. Here are the ten trends that I believe will be most fundamental to the decade ahead. Energy Shift. MORE >>

The field of developmental robotics is very exciting – we now have the fundamental technologies in place to make this a real discipline. To round off here are a few nice videos of the iCub learning: Learning words: Playing with objects: Learning archery: Technology trendsyear old child: the iCub. MORE >>

For over a decade I have ranted about how the mouse is antediluvian technology for interacting with computers – a great leap forward at the time but something we should have long transcended. Later, related technologies can migrate to personal computing at lower prices. Technology trendsve Seen It. Used It. MORE >>

Cloud Technology trendsThis morning I am giving the opening keynote at Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium , organized by the Storage Network Industry Association and Computerworld. Here are the slides to my keynote on The Future of Information Infrastructure. In this case they are even more than usually epigrammatic. MORE >>