Meta Men: Preparing For A 35 Zetabyte World
By Norm Johnston, Mindshare, December 2010
For those of you dying to know I’m glad to report Mindshare’s annual holiday party was as festive as ever. Happiness and mirth were shared by all as we celebrated yet another gruelling year in the advertising business. This year’s party was actually remarkably similar to last year’s with one notable exception. For the first time our digital talent has surpassed our traditional talent, if even a distinction exists anymore. In short, we have far more geeks than ever before. Fun geeks but alas folks who tweet endlessly, debate the merits of Flash versus HTML5, and bond over meta-tagging strategies. Within a few short years we have gone from Mad Men to Revenge of the Nerds. Welcome to the age of Meta Men and Women.
" Everything and everyone will become part of ‘the Cloud’ " |
Of course this is only the beginning. Over the next few years there will a huge demand for these skills as the world becomes ever more connected to the Internet.
" The average individual currently passes 3,254 pieces of personal information into a database every week" |
In effect,
the name often given to this ubiquitous Internet of the future. Devices such as TV’s, mobile phones, and eReaders will mean great chunks of previously analogue content will now be available online. Everyday products such as milk cartons and Pokemon cards will get connected via RFID tags; the German government predicts the number of RFID tags in their country will go from today’s 86 million to 23 billion by 2020. People will also continue to expand their digital profiles leaving more useful and inane data on their every movement, Facebook “like”, purchase, and behavior.
A figure that will surely increase as the Facebook generation grows older.
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