Future Network 2009 Review part 2: This year's technology outlook showed, that technology is about to lose it's key role in innovation - even among technologist. This is not a bad sign for technology, but a good sign for increased usability, increased usefulness and better planning. The road from innovation leads from a social aspect (a problem a need) towards technology - and not anymore the other way round.

We need information. But sometimes we don't want it. Sometimes we are fed with information, sometimes we have to search for it and use tricks to get it. Sometimes we need information for survival, sometimes for entertainment; sometimes we understand it and like it, sometimes we hate it. We are information-eating animals - but what species are we?