Industry Foresight and Product Insight

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-Alex Rohde

Is google glass a killer technology or a showy fad?

Killer

Fad

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What are two things microsoft could do to be more cool?

Should microsoft care about how "cool" it is as a company?

Yes

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Would it be fair to say you can't name anything the Windows 7 does better than the latest OS X?

Yes

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What physical are some standard physical features of MacBook that are superior to a standard Dell Laptop?

(e.g. backlit keyboard)

Will texting and email integrate into a single messaging system in the next 10 years?

Yes

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List things that are outmoded or suboptimal about current keyboard layout/setup/design?

Is it fair to say that most movies are "finely-tuned emotion evoking machines"?

Yes

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Rate these technologies from least to most resentment generated by the average end-user:

ball mouse, printer, microphone

Recently Gmail added tabs ("primary" and "social"). Was this a good idea?

Yes

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Does windows 8 actually suck, or is it just an avant-garde step in the right direction?

Right Direction

Actually Sucks

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Name some devices from the last ten years that have had good interfaces

Will the television be dead in 15 years?

Yes

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Name 3 killer features that gmail had that knocked yahoo mail out relevance in the email marketplace. Estimate how much money it would take to get each of these features implement if you knew the right guy to hire the team. Would you call not implementing these features a multi-million dollar mistake? Regardless, whose fault is it?

Is bitcoin a killer technology or a showy fad?

Killer

Fad

I don't know

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Self-driving cars:

Inevitably will happen

Just Sci-Fi

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Is the hype around the cell phone revolution overblown?

Yes

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Will there be another revolution in man-machine interface?

Yes

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Will it be based around talking to computers?

Yes

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