Thursday, October 20, 2011

Pred-ICT-ion: future personal mobile devices will be small and with limited functionality

In 2009 SIMYO and Ahead of Time presented the future of mobile media and communication. See this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FScddkTMlTc
This film is presenting a summary of key results of the open think tank MOCOM 2020.
It always surprises me what those predictors think of the future role of an hand-held device. It will be larger, smarter, faster, with more bandwith than ever and more powerful. But it will still be there!

My pred-ICT-ion is that the world around us will become smarter, always connected and adaptive to us: a user-centric world. So the need for such a super-device will diminish in my opinion. We might still wear an identification device, for security reasons, although the world around us should recognise us and determine our identity unmistakably. Identification, combined with communication facilities, especially for rural environments which world is less smart than in urban areas.

In short: instead of a super mobile device in 2020 the function of our personal device is limited to identification and live communication. That's it. The world around us will provide us the rest.

Next step is an implanted device....

1 comment:

  1. About an implanted device, check out this slightly different idea in future daily: http://www.metronieuws.nl/future-daily/future-daily-examenfraude-met-hersencomputers/SrZkiD!9vbdVdKVtXig/

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