Networked creative intelligence
Considering that many companies today, such as Amazon, Yahoo and many smaller sites are applying the collective or creative intelligence of virtual communities, that prediction is very conservative. What Gartner calls networked creative intelligence is actually the wisdom of crowds and smart mobs meets the datawarehouse and analytical tools (which are not just in the hands of corporate digital landlords) in the sensitized (RFID and its successors) physical and analog meshed networked worlds to forecast behavior, deliver truly personalized experiences, create attention trusts and form ad hoc and distributed mirco- and macro-communities that exert real-world influence. In ten years, the ubiquity of connected devices, always on computing and new structural models for social and commerce interaction will make today's online world equivalent to the horse and buggy era...