I’m of the age now where technology is starting to evade me. I like to keep up to date with what’s going on: occasionally I’ll buy cutting-edge tech for my computer, but the ‘gadgets’ stay in Argos. Kids nowadays are rolling around with rubix-cube interfaces for tetris, and phones that slide 5 different ways before they turn on. Don’t get me wrong, I think some of the stuff we’ve got nowadays is bloody brilliant: I’ve got a smart phone, my car has a “Go” button, and I won’t stop trying.. but I can’t help feeling like the peak of my front-line technology give a sh*t is past.
The basis of this statement is the desire to stay as we are. I’m not interested in credit cards, let alone a phone that will double as one. I’m not interested in a house that welcomes me and ups the ante on my heating bill because I set it to start heating up when I get within a 5 mile radius. Alas, this is the way the tide is flowing, and here is my prediction:
This is a concept that involves interfacing with oneself. It isn’t digital sodomy, but it’s the difference between writing in your diary and writing on the back of your hand in that it’s just there.
Mark my words. This is only the start. With the combination of that,
this (the TX54 concept), the potential to put a tiny microphone in your little finger and a speaker in your thumb, the idea about putting our credit cards, heating, music, diary, etc in one unit at home and all the hoo haa about nano-technology over the next 20 or so years…
I reckon it’s only a matter of time before someone puts it all together, and before you know it we’ve got an all singing all dancing ID tag in the palm of our hand. No way to rob it, no need for anything else. If I had to guess I’d say that Apple would probably bounce in on the action more quickly than anyone else (they’ve got everything.. if you like to admit it or not. They’re Apple.. and they can do EVERYTHING that Windows can.. it’s scary the amount of half-eaten Granny Smith icons there are around and about nowadays). And at the end of it all, we’re straight back to our first day of school circa 1980′s.
