1. From Search to Results in Push mode
Instead of searching, the web and computers will push results to you based on your interests and past searches. Users will be able to filter or vote up or down the results.
2. Advances in Human-Machine interfaces
I expect Google to play a major role in these:
Thought Recognition
Though-recognition will come into the mainstream, probably in the form of game controllers. The same technology but with different algorithms and implementations will be used in machine to record users’ dreams.
Natural-language commands, Gesture recognition
Both Speech and Gesture recognitiong will become common-place as they are applied increasingly in art and productivity. Music and Art will be created digitally and increasingly through gestures.
3. Feelings/Formative-years Marketing
The forthcoming release of the Google Nexus One and the rumoured Tablet made me feel like when I was a kid imagining the world of possibilities with computers and thinking about Silicon Valley and watching “Whizz Kids”. This feeling is powerful to me.
I foresee that deliberately marketing new products or services to people using the feelings they experienced or expressed relative to their environment and cultural exposure during their formative early years or other period will become a technique used by marketers.
This will be even easier now that Social Networks applications like Facebook allow you to tag your interests and that increasingly, Gen Y’ers and newer generations will live this digital lifestyle naturally in the open.
Major backlashes occur because of Governmental or para-statal organization or other organizations obtain personal information from companies. This may involve any of Facebook, Twitter, Google or Baidu.
4. From Augmented Reality to Augmented Human
During the first years of the decade, Augmented Reality will take hold and become ubiquitous. It is, however, rather intrusive, and there will be a transition to invisible, non-intrusive Augmented Reality systems.
These new systems will range from wearable computing systems, to fully embedded systems within the human body, ushering the age of the Augmented Human.
There will be much debating about the applications of Augmented Humans as it will be a necessity for survival but also subject to much abuse from the wearer or to the wearer.
5. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing will become a commodity – one person through the web and through Natural Language will be able to command vast networks of computing power to bring back the results of analyses and reports in a human-readable format.
Books and magazines in paper form disappear and entire libraries are hosted in the cloud. Similarly, more Art & Culture is digitized, i.e. what happens to Books also happens to Music and TV.
Google dominates the cloud computing technology space.
6. The Exploratory Search Engine
Google was crucial in organizing the web’s structure. Wolfram Alpha is an evolutionary step above all the search engines up to now, allowing us to compute meaning.
In the next decade, a new search engine is built which also enables you to explore the solution space around the result you reached for your search term by showing you the best web application to explore the subject further.
e.g. Searching for Orion, the constellation, will provide you information about Orion, but also show you the web app which enables you to explore the sky constellation as well.
7. People’s attention-span in the Western world continues to drop
Already, I have noticed how people have a lot of difficulty following a few logically-linked sentences. In the era of Twitter and micro chunks of information overload, people will have a tendency to outsource a lot of the thinking to others or to machines. This will heavily influence how people communicate among themselves.
Most conversations in presence of people will devolve into the superficial, relegating the argumentative, logically structured discourse to seminars or conferences.
Business opportunities arise to help people filter out unwanted information pushed to them all the time.
8. Location-based services alert you to any danger or opportunity in your vicinity
Location-aware devices and applications, together with real-time human or machine feeds will enable you to be aware in near real-time of either dangers in your immediate surroundings or opportunities like promotions in a shop or other opportunities.
9. Google disrupts the HealthCare industry
No one foresees the scale of this event but when it arrives, it makes complete sense. This includes Google and its partners (like 23AndMe) helping to better diagnose your symptoms, make better prescriptions and forecasting potentially life-threatening or disabling diseases in your future.
Managing one’s own Health risks based on one’s genetic makeup becomes a normal part of living healthily.
In other posts, I also foresee that Google will disrupt the traditional Telecommunications Industry:
Google Telecom, Hello!
Top 9 reasons why the Google Nexus One beats the Apple iPhone
10. General AI and Strong AI
Google becomes the first company to build and market a robot with General AI, including the ability to learn and grow in intelligence as well as automatically update itself through the web.
Strong AI emerges from the Web, the network of machines, sensors and other networkable devices with General AI robots as well as Augmented Humans.
This causes a drastic increase in the level of consciousness of Human beings, while many of the older generations of people are completely lost as to why life is no longer how it used to be.
This also causes the emergence of a form of Global Intelligence for Earth, making it more aware of its own environment. Efficient energy systems become more prominent and affordable in a new age of greener living.
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