Reading, Writing, and Reflecting

JWT Intelligence has put together a fascinating list of 100 Things to Watch in 2011.   Spanning technology, fashion, pop culture, sports, film, environment, it is a pretty comprehensive list, but slanted towards technology related trends.     Slide 9 in the Slideshare presentation below lists all 100 items and each subsequent slide provides specific commentary on each individual item.

Specific items that I’m particularly interested to see progress in 2011 are:

# 2 Africa’s Middle Class ( I wrote about this here).

# 5 Auto Apps

# 13 Brazil as E-Leader

# 14 Breaking the Book

# 16 Buy One, Give One Away

# 18 Children’s E-Books

# 22 Decline of the Cash Register

# 25 Digital Downtime

# 33 Facebook Alternatives

# 36 Food, Phd

# 38 Global Disease Refocused

# 42 Home Energy Monitors

# 44 In the Flesh

# 49 mHealth

# 50 Michael Jackson Lives on (my recollections of Michael Jackson upon his death).

# 59  Next Generation Documentarians

# 60 Neymar

#  75 Scanning Everything

# 77 Smart Lunchrooms

# 84 Space Travel Goes Private

# 94 Tube Free Goes Private (George Costanza would be so shocked, but so intrigued).

# 96 Urban Industrial Parks (I love urban parks- my favorite is Hyde Park in London)

# 98 Virtual Mirrors