What are some of the significant emerging technologies to pay attention to?

What are some of the significant emerging technologies to pay attention to?

Here are some answers I added (to my question)

1.Social Web – social networks and social aspects of apps
2. Mobile Apps on Smartphones
3. Games – especially Learning Games and Social games
4. Robotics
5. Multi-core and Parallel Programming
6. Next evolution of the web (you can call it semantic web, web 3.0 or whatever name you want to call it)
7. Sensors and sensor based networking
8. Cloud Computing – especially platform as a service
9. Everything Data – Big Data, Open Linked Data, Data Analytics, Visualization, Data mining and Machine Learning, Data Science
10. Internet of things
11. Evolution of collaboration tools including semantic extensions to Wikis
12. Internet Operating system (or Cloud OS)
13. Next generation languages that let you build web applications faster, cheaper
14. Touch and gestural interfaces
15. Evolution in databases including NoSQL
16. Web Query Languages
17. Location based computing
18. Government Apps – apps working on Gov data and helping both governments and people
19. Web Intelligence

Waiting for more answers on Quora.