Peter Sweeney Founder & President, Primal A Visual History of the Next Big Thing ...and how to see The Next One coming
Dec 02, 2014
Peter SweeneyFounder & President, Primal
A Visual History of the Next Big Thing
...and how to see The Next One coming
Vision is being able to recognize a pattern and apply it to something new, before others see it coming.
What is Vision?
New Media as Features in Old MediaAn incumbent player, when presented with a new innovation, attempts to incorporate that innovation as a feature within their existing user experience.An emergent player introduces that innovation as an entirely new medium, giving the innovation room to achieve its full potential, as The Next Big Thing.
Digital Documents
Source: Wikipedia
Amstrad PCW8512 word processor, 1988 (Source: Wikipedia)
The World Wide Web
Source: Wikipedia
The first WWW page, 1991 (Source: W3C, The World Wide Web Consortium)
Online Services
Main Menu USA (AOL 2.5 for Windows), 2003 (Source: Mike Richardson)
Yahoo, original home page, 1994 (Source: CNET)
Search
Yahoo, original home page, 1994 (Source: CNET)
Google, 1999 (Source:Google Blogoscoped)
Social Networks
BlueRodeo.com, June 7, 2000 (Source: Internet Archive)
Myspace, June/04 (Wayback); launched in Aug. 2003
Microblogging and Activity Streams
Facebook, 2006 (Source:Mashable via Jon Loomer)
Twitter, 2009 (Source:iCrossing)
The Next Big Thing?
Interest Networks
Twitter, 2014
Primal, 2014
Cognitive Services
Google, 2013
Wolfram Alpha, 2013
Intelligent Virtual Assistants
Primal, intelligent content assistant
IFTTT Recipes (Source:Marcello Pedra)
How To Recognize The Next Big Thing?New media invariably dominates old media, regardless of how hard the incumbents try to keep new media down.
The essence of The Next Big thing won’t be technological. Cloud, data, augmented, geo, semantic, mobile, distributed, implicit, programmable networks are statements of technological enablers, not human experiences.
Look at the activities and experiences of features that seem overburdened or excessively inconvenient.
Further ReadingMedium: A Visual History of the Next Big Thinghttps://medium.com/@petersweeney/a-visual-history-of-the-next-big-thing-a40c5f30cde8
The next step for intelligent virtual assistants: It’s time to consolidatehttps://gigaom.com/2014/09/01/the-next-step-for-intelligent-virtual-assistants-its-time-to-consolidate/
2013: The Year 'the Stream' Crestedhttp://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/2013-the-year-the-stream-crested/282202/
Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefieldhttp://gigaom.com/2013/12/07/why-cognition-as-a-service-is-the-next-operating-system-battlefield/
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram's utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigmhttp://venturebeat.com/2013/11/29/sentient-code-an-inside-look-at-stephen-wolframs-utterly-new-insanely-ambitious-computational-paradigm/
Antisocial Networking: How Small (and Valuable) Can Social Networks Get?http://blog.primal.com/antisocial-networking-how-small-and-valuable-can-social-networks-get/