While mobile technology has raced forward at light-speed in 2010, with many advances in mobile payments, augmented reality and high-speed networks, look for user demand for cloud computing and mobile apps to increase in the coming year, a University of Alabama technology expert says.
“Surgical shopping,” a pre-Christmas shopping trend, will likely carry over well into 2011 and maybe beyond, according to a University of Alabama retailing expert.
President Obama will seek the right mix of compromise and confrontation in 2011 as he faces a hostile House of Representatives following the GOP takeover in November and fewer Democrats in the Senate, a University of Alabama political scientist predicts.
In the 30th edition of “Educated Guesses,” The University of Alabama’s Office of Media Relations offers predictions from faculty experts for the coming year.
As tensions increase and in the shadow of a potential attack, Iran will cut a deal with world powers to stop developing nuclear weapons, a University of Alabama foreign-relations expert predicts.
Look for the baby boomer generation to fight tooth and claw to protect Social Security as the first of this large and influential group turns 65 in the coming year, says University of Alabama economist Dr. Gary Hoover.
More educational institutions, especially colleges and universities, will be forced to make drastic budget cuts in 2011, predicts Dr. Stephen Katsinas, professor of higher education administration at The University of Alabama and director of UA’s Education Policy Center.
While cholera is unlikely to spread from Haiti to the United States, other viruses and chronic diseases, ranging from dengue to antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, may pose health risks to Americans in 2011, a University of Alabama epidemiologist predicts.
Scientists will develop a good understanding of the short-term impacts the Gulf oil spill is having on fishes, birds and sea turtles in 2011, but an in-depth understanding will take much longer, predicts a University of Alabama ecologist.
The University of Alabama Action Card Office has received the National Association of College Auxiliary Services Technology Award for the ‘My Football Ticket’ program.