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The Future

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Rogers Adoption Curve

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Current Technologies

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  • Smartphones
  • Wireless Broadband
  • Cloud Computing
  • Eye-Tracking/Voice Commands
  • Augmented Reality
  • Social Networking
  • 3D Printing & Custom Products
  • Autonomous Cars
  • Also...

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Smartphones

  • Will evolve into personal mobile computers (PMCs)
  • Moore's Law -- super-computing power
  • Number, accuracy, and performance of sensors will grow
    • Give user powerful sense of surroundings
  • Will move to wrist -- replacing watch
    • (display will not be primary UI)

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Smartphones Con't

  • Primary UI will be personal peripherals
    • Information glasses/headsets
  • PMC and personal peripheral will become interface to every other computer
    • A Web of Things
    • The only UI you'll need is PMC

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Wireless Broadband

  • Deployment of today's cell towers is slow, deliberate, and costly
  • In the future, it will be faster
  • ATT's MicroCell
    • Mini cell tower extension in home
  • PMCs won't even have signal

strength indicators

    • wireless access to the cloud

will be pervasive and ultra fast

at all times

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Cloud Computing

  • Really only Google and Apple have cloud-based services that are relevant to the average person
    • iCloud may cross the Chasm
  • Tomorrow -- all personal information and applications will be available at any time

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Eye-Tracking/Voice Comands

  • Information Glasses
  • Will be combined with AR
    • near-invisible and natural UI for PMC
  • Your visual and audio communication and experience will be transmitted to PMC
    • Will do a slew of things for you

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Augmented Reality

  • Future -- projected images onto lenses of information glasses will be barely noticeable
  • The overlay will enhance
    • Informative experience
    • Entertaining experience
    • first-person immersion into our world
  • Eye tracking and audio commands

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  • Whole point is to enhance

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Social Networking

  • Today -- required to diligently manage our community of friends and followers
    • Must do extra work to extract value
  • Future -- network management will be dynamic and automated
    • System will make/break connections to ensure maximum value
    • Only relevant info will make it through the filter to your PMC
  • More integrated with other components of life
    • calendars, address books, GPS..

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3D Printing & Custom Products

  • Future -- CAD (computer aided design) softwares will be average user friendly
    • Can personalize/design custom products
  • 3DP will allow for quickly and affordably manufactured custom order products

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  • These technologies support trend for personalization and customization

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Autonomous Cars

  • Driver control = optional
  • May seem scary, but will be safer
    • Constantly evaluating environment with multiple sensors
    • Never distracted
    • Always at full processing
  • PMC will act as user interface to any devie
    • Including your autonomous car
  • Car will know your schedule and address book
    • Web of Things

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Closing Thoughts... (Or Crazy Thoughts?)

  • Lifelogging will be soon mainstream
  • Our generation may very likely be the last to die
  • Space colonization
  • Nanorobots
    • Bodies
    • "Constructing" food
  • Digital security
    • When quantum computing becomes mainstream... no such thing as security...
  • Transhumans then Superhumans

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Sknaht!