You sound familiar.... Oh, that's why. I listen to you all the time. I pipe IRC to festival so I can listen to it in the background when I'm coding." Huh? OK, IRC (Inter-Relay Chat) is a popular online text-chat system. Festival is a text-to-speech synthesizer. Turns out that the chatter on IRC is engaging background - a lot like talk radio - to listen to when you're working. This is one example of how Tim O'Reilly is able to spot emerging trends - he watches for disruptive technologies and then keys on those picked up by hackers and so-called "alpha geeks." What's interesting to me is that this is exactly what I do. By the time the entrepreneurs get involved it has been around for a while (and that's when the Elliott Masies and Brandon Halls (who scan the business community) pick it up. By the time it gets to standards, it's old, and a new wave of technologies is on the horizon. There's a lot more in this article - including some surprising tips on what lies ahead.CRLFCRLF
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