This foolishness is what I am talking about…..today on Futurist Fallout.
That is to say, no. There will not be any phones in the future. The phone is an animal on the endangered list ready to pass away into extinction. It’s stupid to even think they will survive…
Yeah that’s right! …….. Okay let me stop being an ass and get into it.
Futurist Fallout
What will personal communications be in the future?
If one notices the trend today is towards smart phones. No duh. But this is just the symptoms of a coming evolution in personal data utility and communications. If one takes time to observe phones are becoming less and less phone and more and more a computer.
Indeed. I use my G1 phone for a variety of different functions, the LEAST of which is actually using it as a phone. And this my friends is where we are headed.
The old land lines and cell infrastructure will of course put up a valiant effort to remain in control and place a funneling cap on the money that pours into communications market daily. But the hold is slipping ever so slowly. And one day it will be in stiff competition with alternative methods to transfer thought-forms from one person to the next.
It is hard to say what format we will choose. Though wireless communication will soon be the key. I think though that Skype and other VOIP type software’s have presented us with a taste of what is to come. Yes. Communication and Data transmission will become synonymous rather than alternate lines.
Already in major cities Wifi is becoming a standard rather than an exception. The technology is firmly taking hold. Look at the propagation of 3G networks and even 4G networks. These are merely standards but they tend to encompass an ungraded ability to wirelessly transmit data. This is the key. The ability to send massive amounts of data wirelessly is growing, especially as the phones and tablets and computers themselves grow in power. (While miniaturizing)
Thus in the future. I don’t think there will be phones. But an integration of all applications and devices into a Network on your person. Your computer, media players, wallet, communications link, interface technology, internet, social networks, remotes controls, hell even keys, and of course your data will all be integrated into one Personal Area Network. Or PAN.
There will be no phones, just a network of utilities that you use about your person. Actually as things stand, we as a race, will be supersaturated with data! What more we will generate enormous amounts of data and people will of course feed off of this data. I can not say if this is a good or bad thing but it is coming, (well if society doesn’t downfall in the meantime)
I plan to go more into this phenomena in later articles. And other futurist predictions.
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