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# Top infotech stories
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/top-infotech-stories/
- Published: 2005-12-30T14:43:02.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:59:12.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

More light holiday posting …  
Technology Review has published its [list of top ‘infotech’ stories](https://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr%5F16098,308,p1.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) for 2005\. They note:

1. Municipal Wi-Fi. “Now there are more than 300 U.S. cities considering municipal Wi-Fi, which would provide inexpensive wireless Internet access anywhere, for anyone: in a park, library, home, or car.”
2. Silicon photonics
3. Social machines. Yep … all that social, collaborative, participative, Bloggy stuff.
4. Search. Notes the emergence of vertical search (e.g. Technorati for blogs), mapping, and the importance of user-contributed data in the form of tagging or other input. It is interesting that books are mentioned here as a vertical search area, as mass digitization initiatives emerge.
Feeds. RSS. Podcasts. “subscribable online media”: increasingly you will not need to know or recognize RSS. ([Subscribe is the new search.](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000712.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)) 

What I find interesting about this list is how much of it is about making information, communication and computational resources available [in the flow](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000688.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) of our everyday work, play and learning.