First, on the predictors: changes in the technology of media and the status of celebrity are steadily driving forecasters further from accuracy, even as technology increases our assumption that accuracy should be possible.
Distinctions between design and making, building and urban scale, architecture and engineering, real and virtual, on site and remote, physical and digital data, professionals and crowds, are diminishing as technology increases the designer's reach far beyond the confines of the drafting board.
As technology increases and performance requirements continually tighten, the cost and required precision of assemblies increase as well.
"As technology increases and cars are equipped with more technology, there will be more lights and more buzzers in a car, and a driver needs to know immediately what a sound means or a symbol means".
As mobile phone technology expanded, everyone had to have one as the technology increased -- so it will be with passenger drones.
During the twelve years studied, household income as well as the use of modern technology increased rapidly.
As experience with the technology increased however, assistance was no longer required and a podcast could be produced in under two hours.
As videophone technology increases in sophistication and as more areas of the United States receive state-of-the-science broadband capacity, perhaps some of these issues will be resolved.
