文档介绍：Technology, Media &
munications
Predictions
2016
Contents
Foreword 1
Technology 3
Women in IT jobs: it is about education, but it is also about more than just education 4
Trailing millennials are the pro-PC, not the post-PC, generation 8
merce: the mobile online checkout gets an express lane 12
Graphene: research now, reap next decade 14
Cognitive technologies enhance enterprise software 17
Media 21
Virtual reality: a billion dollar niche 22
Mobile games: leading, but less lucrative 26
Mobile ad-blockers: saved by the app? 28
The award for stable box office revenues in the face of digital media goes to… 30
US TV: erosion, not implosion 35
European football scores $30 billion 39
eSports: bigger and smaller than you think 42
munications 45
The dawn of the Gigabit age: every bit counts 46
Used smartphones: the $17 billion market you may never have heard of 50
The rise of the data exclusive 53
VoLTE/VoWiFi: capacity, reach and capability 57
Photo sharing: trillions and rising 59
Endnotes 62
Recent Deloitte thought leadership 78
Contacts at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) and its member firms 79
Foreword
e to the fifteenth edition of Predictions for the Technology, Media and munications (TMT) sectors.
The last 15 years have been a golden era for innovation: multiple TMT products and services that we now take for
granted were niche or non-existent back then.
In 2002, homes typically had dial-up access, boxy television sets, wired speakers, standalone digital cameras,
shopping catalogues and fixed line telephones. Photos were stored in albums and shelves bulged with CDs and
DVDs; LPs had been banished to the attic or sold off.
‘Candy bar’ shaped mobile phones had monochrome screens and were predominantly used to make calls and
exchange text messages. Instant messaging, e-mail, merce, maps, search engines, photos, videos and other
online services that are now routinely accessed via smartphones were pr