There’s no better way to ensure your value than to identify a trend and capitalize on it before your competitors
get to the table. But how do you do this without a crystal ball or a
time machine? Here are some suggestions for honing your sense of what’s
coming next in your field.
Notice Systems That Are Broken
If a broken process or system affects enough people, they will start to complain – and loudly. When the noise gets too deafening, someone enterprising (hopefully you) will inevitably step in to fix the problem. A current example is online plagiarism. Right now, we can’t seem to stop people from copying the work of others and posting it on their own websites without attribution. Writers are getting pretty ticked off, and I think it’s reasonable to expect that within the next five years, a solution will be developed to prevent this type of fraud.
More advice on finding the next big thing in 2013 is available at the Fast Track blog.
Online article plagiarism is one of the logical extensions of the leftward trend--profit, private ownership are bad. It's most evident, of course, in the Left's Occupy movement and in America's, indeed, the world's move leftward.
"File sharing" (stealing) has become ubiquitous. That is contracting the music industry so that it now can promote fewer musicians. Thus, many more musicians, many of whom don't have the skills to promote and disseminate their work adequately, must fend for themselves.
The same is happening to writers who now, must often shrug their shoulders and write for little or no pay, in part because their content is now routinely "file shared."
Posted by: Marty Nemko | December 31, 2012 at 04:37 PM