Resources for keeping up with emerging technologies, tech trends, and current technological events.
(Last updated June 2017 – no longer actively maintained)
Technology News
- Gadgets & Reviews
- Tech News
- TechCrunch
- ZDNet
- ArsTechnica
- Slashdot
- Hacker News on yCombinator.com
- Mainstream News
- The Atlantic and its offshoot, Citylab
- The Economist, especially their Technology Quarterly
- The Huffington Post
- The New York Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
- Popular Media
- Buzzfeed
- Lifehacker
- Mind/Shift, from KQED
- Slate
- NPR and local affiliates
- Local & national television & radio station sites
Big Trends: Library-Focused Resources
- ALA Libraries Transform
- Center for the Future of Libraries
- Current Trends in the world & libraries
- ALA TechSource – Tech Reports and Marshall Breeding’s newsletter
- Library conferences
- ALA & ALA division conferences
- Information Today (ITI) conferences
- ASIS&T events (Association for Information Science & Technology)
- Library vendor conferences – all major library vendors have annual conferences/gatherings for users of their products
- Professional journals
- International, national, state, and local library organizations
Big Trends: Nonprofit or General Resources
- Nonprofit Technology Network (NTN)
- Chronicle of Higher Ed
- Pew Research Center, especially the Internet, Science & Tech
- The Institute for the Future, see their Featured Projects page
- Government agencies
- International agencies
- World Economic Forum, especially the Future of Jobs report
Big Trends: Technology Conferences
This is only a small sample – there are many, many more. Bolded conferences might be particularly useful.
- Industry Conventions
- CES (formerly The Consumer Electronics Show)
- Digital Entertainment World (DEW)
- E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo
- Game Developers Conference (GDC)
- Mobile World Congress
- Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC)
- SXSW (South By Southwest), a cutting edge conference on technology, music, and film
- TecHomeX, focusing on technology and building/construction
- Developer & Release Events
- Technology Industry Conferences