Search Info On BlackBerries
By Jacob Sherman
If you want to see how startling fast technology is progressing these days, here's a simple exercise for you: list all the things that your phone still can't do. Of course, you'll be able to list plenty of things. But each year, it seems like a few more things get crossed off. Following are a few features that have either been recently crossed off or most likely will be in the future. Hopefully it will get you as excited as I am for whatever the next big thing will be.
Who knew, for example, that an accelerometer could do so much? I didn't know before that an accelerometer helps your navigation device track your movement, or that the same technology has given birth to a billion amusing little apps that take advantage of your phone knowing how it's moving around. These two types of application alone have radically changed what a phone is, and who would claim that the innovations will stop coming? For example, since your phone knows when it moves around and how fast, it knows if you get in a car crash. Your phone can call 911 for you in the case that you can't for yourself. What other innovative apps will be coming up in the next few years?
Another new technology which has been around slightly longer, but is still developing, is GPS. Knowing your latitude and longitude alone means very little, but new applications keep being developed to show you where everything else is, too. Now you can navigate almost anywhere in the world and find the nearest, well, anything. Paired with other technologies, the potential uses for personal GPS start to grow. You can be alerted automatically if there is severe weather nearby, for example, or if you enter a high crime area. These technologies already exist, but imagine what other ideas might be floating around today that will become commonplace within the next 10 years.
Another advance in technology is one that we already tend to take for granted- internet on cell phones. Not only is there a great basic value to this, it also means that the door is wide open for how connecting a phone to the web can make your life easier. I'm sure that ideas are being kicked around right now that in 5 years will be, once again, commonplace to any cell phone user.
Stop and think for a moment about how far phones have come in the last 15 years. Now think how much more your phone will be able to do in 15 years, at this rate. Just as the you of 15 ears ago would be surprised at how much a phone is capable of, I feel confident that the me of today would be stunned at the phones of 2025. That it is realistic to think that technology will surprise you says a lot about the age that we live in--the world changes faster than ever, and cell phones continue to be perhaps the greatest evidence of this.
Who knew, for example, that an accelerometer could do so much? I didn't know before that an accelerometer helps your navigation device track your movement, or that the same technology has given birth to a billion amusing little apps that take advantage of your phone knowing how it's moving around. These two types of application alone have radically changed what a phone is, and who would claim that the innovations will stop coming? For example, since your phone knows when it moves around and how fast, it knows if you get in a car crash. Your phone can call 911 for you in the case that you can't for yourself. What other innovative apps will be coming up in the next few years?
Another new technology which has been around slightly longer, but is still developing, is GPS. Knowing your latitude and longitude alone means very little, but new applications keep being developed to show you where everything else is, too. Now you can navigate almost anywhere in the world and find the nearest, well, anything. Paired with other technologies, the potential uses for personal GPS start to grow. You can be alerted automatically if there is severe weather nearby, for example, or if you enter a high crime area. These technologies already exist, but imagine what other ideas might be floating around today that will become commonplace within the next 10 years.
Another advance in technology is one that we already tend to take for granted- internet on cell phones. Not only is there a great basic value to this, it also means that the door is wide open for how connecting a phone to the web can make your life easier. I'm sure that ideas are being kicked around right now that in 5 years will be, once again, commonplace to any cell phone user.
Stop and think for a moment about how far phones have come in the last 15 years. Now think how much more your phone will be able to do in 15 years, at this rate. Just as the you of 15 ears ago would be surprised at how much a phone is capable of, I feel confident that the me of today would be stunned at the phones of 2025. That it is realistic to think that technology will surprise you says a lot about the age that we live in--the world changes faster than ever, and cell phones continue to be perhaps the greatest evidence of this.
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