"Social games will become less about fantasy and more about tapping into real-life trends, " predicts de Halleux The EA executive talks about the possibilities of creating more of these "online-offline loops" in social games that take advantage of big events like holidays or player interests like sports.
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Yes, I know that trends take on a life of their own and that the market can stay irrational longer than one can stay solvent.
It's only the beginning of a new decade, but with social media the buzz topic on everybody's lips, might this be the age of the style blogger revered for personal fashion sense and an ability to make runway trends work in everyday life?
Dr Welch can now track where an individual salmon spends its life and watch trends in an entire population.
And he plans to launch a quarterly magazine in Europe filled with stories and pictures evoking the Red Bull world: music, extreme sports, night life, social trends.
Judy Martin is an Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist who tracks business and workplace trends with an expertise in work life initiatives.
Throughout the next decade major trends through an intermix of the life sciences and information technology will involve increasing use of biotechnological processes in understanding life, eradicating hereditary diseases, developing novel bio-industries, and furthering the uses of biomedical products in conserving the quality of life and the environment through the promotion of clean technologies.
Not so, says John Krubski, research advisor of The Guardian Life Small Business Research, which released its list of trends for small businesses in 2012.
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The company drew on better pricing trends in property and casualty operations, a solid quarter from domestic life and retirement operations and profitable performances from mortgage guaranty and the aircraft leasing business.
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It turns out that these are all climate-driven employment areas, too -- trends that will grow in demand as climates change because our urban plant life will have greater demands placed on it.
Vaccines are developed for polio, TB, AIDS, bird-flu and mad-cow type epidemics and pandemics that periodically threaten to envelop the world, with the feared trends actually resulting not in annihilation of the human species, but in an improvement in life expectancies.
In any event, other trends suggest that for every Timmy Willie, there is a Johnny Town-Mouse: many people like urban life and want to go on living in a city, particularly the centre.
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He or she is, it is now widely assumed, best able to determine what technology will once and for all identify what customers really truly want, what trends are lurking below the horizon that will impact the company and, for good measure, the meaning of life.
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Even fewer will make the choice that I made to dedicate my life to asking big philosophical questions or understanding the way arbitrary intellectual constructs are reinforced by technologies and cultural trends.
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