Multi Touch and acceleration based navigation (Apple and Wii) becoming mainstream in games, phones, tablet (Apple?) or laptops, on large screens and in interactive devices like airline check in and other self service devices.

With this, 2010 could be ready for 3D internet. The possibility to navigate a traditional 2D web page also using its depth side, allowing to display more information (and advertisement) in less real estate. Airlines fares visualized in a cube, beyond the matrix today offered?

Be it users who no longer have access; users who no longer have MONEY to either BUY THINGS, buy trips; or just waste time doing something that is not accretive to their individual balance sheets.

Even as social theories and the proven logic of embracing technology and technologies ability to dramatically increase efficiency and productivity, without capital, time and lastly motivation – people will move away.

Growth will not return till people have some sense of calm and comfort and that will not happen in 2009.

I know, the WEB is the best place to help find a new job or better opportunity. But, I think we will see more DIRECT interactions for most of those who are unemployed and they won't be sitting on the web looking for it.

People will be working HARDER for LESS MONEY, and they won't be spending it on items on the web. And they won't be spending their free time ON THE WEB either.

In 2009 online “multimedia” collaboration will explode and finally become disruptive “for business people” vs. the social networking waves of the last several years. The last decade of stochastic technological advancements and the convergence of all digital communications will launch a disruptive new wave of “visual communications” that will revolutionize the way we communicate both within our companies and with our customers. The “solution components” have already been created and tested in the consumer space, like HD video, but the true Productivity 2.0 (and 3.0) value proposition lies in the business space. Consumers “now” believe that everything should be free … business people don't. Since all “business people” are actually consumers by evening and weekends, there will be an enormous revolution against the ultra conservative practices of the traditional IT gatekeepers. These revolutionaries have already paved the way with Blackberries and iPhones … but this is only the beginning of wave after wave of disruptive innovation created from our “at home experiences” with advanced technology like our “custom home entertainment networks” and HD video camcorder phones. The leaders of this revolution will be CEOs, executive leaders, analysts, bloggers, and other “decision makers” at companies of all sizes that will rapidly adopt to these advancements from their own personal experiences at home and “off work”.

Why do we operate in business with such primitive “tools” when in our social lives we already actively use productivity 2.0 tools?

And, this is just 2008 … wait until 2010 and the next several years! We will look back and wonder “how” we ever did truly “productive” business with just heavy laptops, emails, the old generation of cell phones, IMs, voicemails, paper documents and “physical travel”.

Going “to work” WILL actually become exciting again!