The post social age is not the age built after the age of social media, it’s the age built on top of social media.
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Your Smartphone Will Read Your Mind? (Or be contextually aware enough to make the difference irrelevant)
This is really cool (obviously) and/or really freaky (again obviously, depending on your view of tech). But where I think this really takes off is when you combine the cloud, mobile and sensors everywhere. Imagine a network of computers and sensors that use your phone as the contextual hub. Of course if that contextual hub could read your mind wel…
“We want to deploy a 100% decentralized AI layer on top of the existing Internet. We want everyone to be a part of the ‘collective intelligence’ and decide if and how they want to participate,” Kimera Systems CEO Mounir Shita said in an email.
The Kimera AI system attempts to model the world and derive useful intelligence that lets it adapt to the individual. It uses “smart agents” to interact with various functions of the smartphone such as calendar or email apps. Say, you send an invite to several of your friends for a dinner party. You then go shopping for the groceries for the dinner. Your smartphone knows why you are at the grocery store and what you need to buy. Kimera might download and launch a shopping app. In theory, it understands your actions and is aware of your goal.
I love the cyclical nature of the predictions. Including the post-apocalyptic vision of our return to the stone age.
Fast forward 15 years. With Google’s pioneering work, smartphones evolve into wearable devices with augmented reality. These smartglasses provide a constant stream of content and advertisement directly into the user’s field of vision.
After the fad of wearable phone glasses, companies go mad with miniaturization in 25 years. Technology allows for extreme miniaturization and phones become single use, disposable devices.
50 years later, wearable phones make a comeback in the form of wristbands. The wristphone, as it is commonly known, is customized to fit each user’s arm perfectly. It includes state-of-the-art voice-command features as well as holographic component that let you chat with your friends as though they are right next to you.
(via Smartphone of the future will be in your brain - CNN.com)
Human Brains + Smartphones = Cyborg Geniuses
CNN has a great special section all about mobile phones and our society. It’s basically an aggregation of a lot of reports, but it’s really good. You can see all the stories here.
The first one that I stumbled on was, Smartphone of the future will be in your brain. It’s an interesting look at the future of mobile computing from our current devices to micro-disposable phones brain implants, back to post apocalyptic carvings in stone.
But within that post was a link to another story: How smartphones make us superhuman. The post is a bit meandering ranging from examples cited in the book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything and how they imortalize events to how they extend our capabilities which, as I’ve argued before, makes us cyborgs.
This is also inline with Howard Rheingold’s new book (Kindle single actually) Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? While not just specifically about mobile and more generally about computing, mobile has always been a big part of Rheingold’s thesis, ever since is seminal 2007 book,Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.
Put all of these together and the future is pretty clear: we’re destined to be cyborg super-geniuses.
