Humans are always looking toward the future, depending on it for everything. Hope. A chance at seeking achievement and glory for oneself. Fulfilment. We also look to the future for technological advancements that will provide us with a better lifestyle.
Take for example the recent launch of the Apple iPhone, a pure ingenuity that revolutionized communications in the 21st century. Users are introduced to a multitude of location-aware services available with the iPhone, helping you to keep a lookout for sales as you walk through your local mall, or getting recommendations to a good pub or restaurant to let your hair down and chill with your friends on a Friday night.
With the US elections that propelled Obama to the oval office, the internet starred in its first major role in the campaign trails with politicians utilizing it to create an interactive political hub for Americans to be immersed to a greater extent in the voting process. This was because the internet provided politicians with the opportunity to create blogs or personalized websites allowing voters to keep track of their rallies, listen to their speeches on video and participate in their popularity polls.
Ten years from now, I see the globe as an interactive digital network with criss-crossing connections extending its web as far as the eye can see. Many cultures, one community.
Ten years from now, I see the virtual world and the physical world merging as one, where computers can create an avatar, complete with an individual personality and physical appearance unique to each computer, projecting the avatar into the physical world as a life-sized human being.
Ten years from now, I see the computer as a meta-human complete with an infinite ocean of knowledge and internet data at your disposal, an entity that can walk beside you in the physical world while keeping you logged in constantly, everywhere, anytime. A teacher, an entertainer, a friend.
Take for example the recent launch of the Apple iPhone, a pure ingenuity that revolutionized communications in the 21st century. Users are introduced to a multitude of location-aware services available with the iPhone, helping you to keep a lookout for sales as you walk through your local mall, or getting recommendations to a good pub or restaurant to let your hair down and chill with your friends on a Friday night.Ten years from now, perhaps the upgraded version of the iPhone would still be providing you with the latest entertainment information but instead of the rectangular device you hold in the palm of your hand, it will be the virtual entity standing beside you, talking to you like how a real companion would.
With the US elections that propelled Obama to the oval office, the internet starred in its first major role in the campaign trails with politicians utilizing it to create an interactive political hub for Americans to be immersed to a greater extent in the voting process. This was because the internet provided politicians with the opportunity to create blogs or personalized websites allowing voters to keep track of their rallies, listen to their speeches on video and participate in their popularity polls. Ten years from now, instead of watching your favourite senator in a video on a monitor, perhaps his life-sized image could be projected in mid-air, presenting you with your own personal rallying speech to win your vote.
Ten years from now, what do you see?
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