If you want to know where the Internet is headed, there are few better guides than Mary Meeker’s annual outlook, presented today at the tech site re/code’s first Code Conference, the successor to Kara Swisher’s and Walt Mossberg’s AllThingsD conference.
This year, the massive 164-page slide deck, which the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner always runs through at lightning speed, holds perhaps fewer surprises than usual, mostly because one trend rules above all else: mobile.
The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report includes:
1. Key Internet trends showing slowing Internet user growth but strong smartphone, tablet and mobile data traffic growth as well as rapid growth in mobile advertising.
2. Emerging positive efficiency trends in education and healthcare.
3. High-level trends in messaging, communications, apps and services.
4. Data behind the rapid growth in sensors, uploadable / findable / shareable data, data mining tools, and pattern recognition.
5. Plus much, much more….
Download all 164 (PDF) slides now!