India, March 22 -- What if you could have anticipated the impacts of the iPhone a year before it was introduced, or known about how the Internet and the Web would connect the world of computers before it actually happened. That would give you an insight into the opportunities ahead and an advantage in prepping for those opportunities.

In a Gartner Data and Analytics Summit keynote address, Willful Disruption: Seven Digital Disruptions You Might Not See Coming, chief Gartner Fellow and managing VP Daryl Plummer provided a future-looking perspective that examined some of the technologies on the horizon that could change the course of businesses, markets, and culture.

Spoiler alert: Blockchain is not among them this time.

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