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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Reality check: intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis since the 1990s

Trends in the Living Networks

Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. I fail to understand why this is big news, since US intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis (SNA) for domestic purposes since the 1990s, and likely even before that. I have been focused on networks since long before I wrote Living Networks in 2002.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

While I closely followed the social networking space at the time, I didn’t join many. When I was writing Living Networks in 2002 there were no true social networking applications in existence. As it happens this model closer to LinkedIn than any of the other major social networking platforms of today.

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Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point

Trends in the Living Networks

Over the last six weeks they have taken social news curation to a new level. For several weeks it was ranked one of the top few free iPad apps in the News category in US, UK, and Australia, attracting massive interest for what it calls a “social magazine”. Flipboard and Paper.li are two of the hottest properties in media today.

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Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016 (release)

Trends in the Living Networks

This morning Future Exploration Network issued this press release (excuse the hyperbole :-) ) I have already done several radio interviews on the forecasts in the release with quite a few more radio, newspaper and TV interviews lined up for the next days - the ideas seem to have struck a chord. Futurist proved correct!

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The past, present, and future of location-based mobile social networking

Trends in the Living Networks

I have long believed that location-based mobile social networking is central to how technology will connect us. The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people’s familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is – finally – ready to take off. The Present.

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Reviewing my map of the 2010s at the end of the decade

Trends in the Living Networks

Overall the themes seem to be pretty accurate, though the pace of some may have been a little off, and among other misses, the key theme of social polarization, while alluded to in ‘haves and have nots’ was not adequately on the map. ORGANIZATIONS TO NETWORKS. EXATRENDS OF THE DECADE:2010s. AUGMENTED HUMANS. GLOBAL TALENT.

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