{"id":2739,"date":"2018-09-15T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.home.ona\/newsroom18\/?p=664"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:26:24","slug":"tech-trends-liveblog-scenes-amy-webbs-annual-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/newsroom\/2018\/09\/15\/tech-trends-liveblog-scenes-amy-webbs-annual-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Trends liveblog: scenes from Amy Webb’s annual presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amy Webb delivers her 2018 predictions at teh ONA conference. (Photo: Violet Wang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hundreds of people crowded into a ballroom at #ONA18 to hear Amy Webb’s predictions of our digital news future. (Photo: Violet Wang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liveblogging by Justina Brown and Bailey LeFever<\/strong>
\nLivetweeting on @ONANewsroom by Sheila Raghavendran<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the final day of the ONA 18 conference, Amy Webb<\/a> presented her 11th Annual Tech Trends For Journalists. A self-declared \u201cquantitative futurist,\u201d Webb has created a cottage industry as a consultant and through her Future Today Institute. She has an appointment as a strategic foresight professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.<\/p>\n

One of the most anticipated annual events at ONA, the ONA Newsroom will be liveblogging and experimenting with a new storytelling platform from Google during her session. Refresh this post as the session goes along for the latest.<\/p>\n

Last year, the ONA newsroom looked back at her first tech talk<\/a> in 2008 and evaluated if she had been right. This year, follow along the social conversation with #ONA18trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Download The Future Today\u2019s Institute\u2019s<\/a> 11th annual Emerging Tech Trends Report.<\/p>\n

Update 10:08 a.m.<\/strong>: Webb kicks off the presentation with recaps of last year\u2019s #ONA17trends. She said she was correct about the splintering of the internet and other trends. The shuttering of newsrooms and layoffs at media companies wasn\u2019t something she predicted but she discussed its impact.<\/p>\n

Webb discusses the last year\u2019s events surrounding the media and the audience\u2019s perception of journalists. She says she\u2019s not going to scare us this year in her tech trends talk. She says she sees opportunity in this room.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next hour is for you,\u201d Webb says.<\/p>\n

Update 10:20 a.m.<\/strong>: Running down the second annual tech trends report with 108 new trends. Webb focuses heavily on the blockchain technology outlined in the report. To find emerging trends, they start by looking at the fringe.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrends are just the beginning. They\u2019re what you use to create action plans,\u201d Webb says.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s trends will build on each other.<\/p>\n

First key finding: 2018 is the beginning of the end of smartphones. Looking back at 2008 and the flip cameras, iPod nanos, the launch of the Apple app store and more. All of those devices are wrapped into one in the iPhone. The smartphone market is starting to erode, partially because of their incremental benefits.<\/p>\n

Webb says we\u2019re buying wearables. Smart glasses, fitness watches, and wireless earbuds are feeding us information.<\/p>\n

Update 10:30 a.m.:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tech Trend One: Spatial Computing<\/h4>\n

Webb is most excited about Magic Leap<\/a>. Only a few people in the audience have heard of it, even fewer have used it. It\u2019s not something you\u2019ll buy just to wear in your living room. But Webb says it\u2019s going to \u201ccompletely shift and change how we interact with the world around us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Magic Leap is the next big thing, @amywebb<\/a> says. By bringing people into meeting rooms virtually, it could revolutionize newsrooms. #ONA18<\/a> #ONA18Trends<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/o9zin46mPx<\/a><\/p>\n

— ONA19 Student Newsroom (@ONANewsroom) September 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n