Monopolies Are Our Future

Convergence is a key term used throughout the report, the crux being that data will increasingly come from many sources and that services will need to mix and filter that data.

A big opportunity for entrepreneurs in this future Internet will be to become a service broker:

"A new class of service provider will emerge that will create and market service elements that can be applied across multiple sectors. These elements will be aggregated together in any number of ways by a 'broker', to provide the end user with contextually aware applications and decision support services."

The whole report is worth diving into, but the following selection of graphs gives a good summary of the key points.