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Welcome to the 2010 edition of Technology Predictions. This is the ninth year in which the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group has published predictions on the TMT sectors.

Everyone recognizes China as a low-cost manufacturer and a huge potential market. But most do not realize China is emerging as a key player in shaping technology standards – standards that could define the nature of global competition in the technology, media and telecommunications sector for years to come.

2005 will see the media find new stability in the digital age. The music industry will be the first to emerge as a master of the internet. Legal downloading will flourish, and a concerted, coordinated and global effort to crackdown on pirates will see illegal activity take a significant blow.

Digital media means more content, more channels and more ways to consume than ever before. For publishers, it means more challenges in operating their businesses and a greater effort to understand an increasingly complex customer.

Deloitte predicts that in 2011 the global computer and video game industry will continue growing but from a more diverse set of revenue streams.

In recent years, employers have become increasingly vulnerable to resentful employees misusing or stealing electronic data.

Welcome to the 11th edition of Deloitte’s Predictions for the technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) sector.

The technology sector in 2006 was characterized by diversity and growth. As forecast last year, search continued to dominate the Internet, as well as the headlines. The Internet continued its evolution into a fully commercial infrastructure, with disparities between its rules and those of traditional companies, steadily lessening. Technology’s role in the education process also matured, with digital classrooms and distance learning becoming more widespread.

According to recent reviews carried out by the FSA, a quarter of all financial advertising on websites reviewed failed to meet the FSA’s financial promotions standards and many firms’ sponsored links were found to mislead consumers.

2005 is set to be an incredibly diverse year in the world of technology, with several entirely new, global markets emerging. The single largest opportunity will derive from the smallest ever technology. Nanotechnology – the set of technologies that enables manipulation of structures and processes at the atomic level – is likely to become a large-scale commercial reality. At the other end of the scale, the vastness of space will become increasingly important to

An early mini-heat wave, hosepipe bans and the threat of severe drought all seem like fond memories.

On 8th December 2003, the DTI published a White Paper entitled "Fair, Clear and Competitive--The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century"

Whereas the Anticipate phase of Strategic Flexibility generates insights through the application of scenario-based planning, the Formulate phase makes use of what is already known about how to develop good strategy – the well developed body of knowledge concerning both the appropriate processes to use and the content needed to maximize the probability of competitive success.

Deloitte predicts that during the course of 2011 online privacy will provoke more irate headlines and exasperated calls for action than ever before.

As part of its agenda to modernise public services UK Government is proposing some very large IT-enabled change programmes. In his first of a series of white papers John Newton looks at the policy issues behind this and considers commercial techniques that could add value in helping Governments manage top-level policy risks.