| zygote said: Wow you are going really far into the future with your question positioning, but you mix it too much with limited modern functions. Mobile is going to be the future for now or, at least, more flexible systems, however I do not think it will be phones. Phone functions may be important but that industry is not where the change is happening. I think the industry most likely to be the base for future devices will come from a large company like google, amazon, or Facebook for various reasons or, even more likely, a company currently in the video game hardware market, preferably creative Nintendo. Whatever comes from this will not be considered a phone but will have phone functions and until it comes out, we will continue to have incrementally developing phones like we have today. It may take another two or three generations of changes, picking up VR and upgrading systems along the way, but we will likely have a different device that is at its core a computer with entertainment/game/navigation interface with phone/communications functions with ability to interface with smart home functions and incorporate holograms/AR/VR into the UI. It will also have some interfacing with car systems, but the car market moves much slower. It will likely be of a form and possess controlling methods we do not see as mainstream today. I see all major companies today having a role in its development either historically or directly at that time. There are too many random tech advances and trends developing right now to go into more specifics. Now, if you want to talk about all the possible steps to get us to that point, then this thread could go on for months if everyone plays along. *This is of course with the caveat that the world doesn't destroy itself or we all end up under some oppressive power. |
So you basically foresee the comeback of the pda. It should happen when mobile data networks become more open and more mobile devices can connect to the internet from anywhere. But I think it's more likely all your data is going to be in the cloud instead of on the device, most of it already is anyway.
About that world destroying itself, it seems the AI revolution is starting to happen. I was following GTC 2017 for VR news, yet what stood out to me was all the advances in AI: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tag/gtc-2017/?doing_wp_cron=1494621353.5327520370483398437500
AI for self driving cars, medical robots, accelerating health care, interpreting sign language, reading and predicting your emotions, story telling, raytracing, product creation and many more. NVidia is really promoting the use of AI in business solutions.
Interesting times ahead.
