How did you imagine the 2020s? Would there be commercial flights to Mars? Robot-shaped butlers doing all the household chores? Cars without blind spots? Flying bikes?
Today’s reality has lagged far below the world that science fiction and forecasts of technological advances claimed to be expected of this time. It is not that society is not evolving technologically, but that the forecasts for the future that had been made do not correspond to our current reality. We are going much slower than our colleagues in the past believed. With this, few people had glimpsed that every day we would be dressed with a small device with which we would not want to separate ourselves even to go to the bathroom and that would put us in contact with family, friends, news and a whole range of possibilities related to the use of Internet.
The good news is that technology continues to advance, giving us new products that we can use every day to improve our quality of life and making the world a smaller and closer place. “The evolution of modern connectivity is often summarized as: Internet – the global network – mobile devices – Big Data / the cloud – Internet of things. For the next stage, it seems inevitable that even more customization will be an important component. And here, the internet of things will be a focal point. But more than simply connecting humans to devices, the next stage in connectivity will include “humanized” interfaces that are constantly evolving to understand user patterns and needs and, in a sense, self-optimize. This would include the functions and features of our devices, as well as the selection / curation of the information we receive. It may not be the kind of artificial intelligence found in science fiction, but I hope this injection of personalization brings monumental changes as our level of connectivity continues to grow, ”explained Sirgoo Lee, co-CEO of the company. South Korean internet Kakao.
While some of these technologies exist in some primordial form, they are hardly ubiquitous parts of the world of the future predicted by decades of visionaries and even books, movies, and television. We hope not to disappoint you – although probably yes – but in theory, these technologies should already exist (or at least, we wish they already existed).
