The 5 Technology Megatrends You Can't Ignore

It's easy to shrug off trends as temporary ways of approaching business. The best approach is to stick to what you know works, right? Wrong, if you ask Reggie Bradford, SVP of product development at Oracle. Bradford spoke Monday at the multinational tech corporation's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco about what he called "megatrends." Megatrends, per Bradford's PowerPoint, "are global, sustained, and macroeconomic forces of development that impact business, economy, society, culture, and personal lives, thereby defining our world and its increasing pace of change."