There are some concurrent streams of thinking underway in society around environmental agendas, micropayments systems as a means of aggregating interest in subjects be they charity or other mans of participating in social and commercial endeavours, alternative methods of loaning and investing money, and the notion of trade and barter for achieving progress within new businesses. If these are overlayed on each other they start to suggest something else emerging that is leaner, less prone to herd instinct, lower risk or risk spread wider, and more open to ideas and concepts coupled with a real sense of being tested by consumers and users that in a sense achieve more validation than any clever assessment model devised by “Rocket Scientists” or “Experience / Knowledge engineers”

So lets not look for the next big thing but the paradigm shift that genuinely delivers a sustainable and scalable model that engages society in evolving the future