The O’Reilly empire shared the themes of the 2008 Radar. Radar is the blog exploring the most important social changes that can be expected in the coming years. The themes are:

Bio
Synthetic Biology
Neuro-Everything
Personal Genomics

Real World
Physical Web
Neo-Geo
Clean Energy Tech

Web
Web Ops
Social Networking
Web 2.0
Money/Web

People
New User Interfaces
ARGs
Digital Democracy
Overload

Hardware
Make
Materials Science
Art and Technology

Strength in Numbers
Collective Intelligence
Open Beyond Source

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Some of these things will be covered at Lift Asia 08 (Social Networking, Money/Web, Digital Democracy), and some have been covered during past events (Overload at Lift07, Art and Technology ever since we introduced Lift experience, Clean Energy Tech at Lift08). It is interesting to see a consensus among the people who, like us via Lift, are trying to predict what the future will hold. It comforts me in the idea that some of these trends we are identifying will really change society.

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