FOREWORD
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of Predictions for the
Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sectors.
The last 15 years have been a golden era for innovation:
multiple TMT products and services that we now take for granted
were niche or non-existent back then.
In 2002, homes typically had dial-up Internet access, boxy
television sets, wired speakers, standalone digital cameras,
shopping catalogues and fixed line telephones. Photos were stored
in albums and shelves bulged with CDs and DVDs; LPs had been
banished to the attic or sold off.
'Candy bar' shaped mobile phones had monochrome screens
and were predominantly used to make calls and exchange text
messages. Instant messaging, e-mail, e-commerce, maps, search
engines, photos, videos and other online services that are now
routinely accessed via smartphones were predominantly PC-based at
the start of 2002.
