Mobile innovations that will change your life
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The smart phone has revolutionized our personal and professional lives by performing as a multimedia computer
- It will continue to change your life as intelligent e-agents become personalized
- Smart phones will evolve in ways that mean they won't need screens -- or big batteries
- They will also increasingly become your wallet, as cash and credit cards become fixtures of the past
Editor's note: Daniel Burrus is a leading futurist on tech trends and innovation. He is the author of six books, including the New York Times best seller Flash Foresight. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Daniel Burrus.
(CNN) -- The smart phone has revolutionized our
personal and professional lives. More than just a phone, they are
powerful, networked multimedia computers that we carry with us every
day.
Over the next 10 years,
they'll get far more advanced, transforming every business process
including how we sell, communicate, collaborate, train, and educate.
Here are five ways the mobile phone will change your life over the next decade:
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1. Your phone will be your personal assistant. The introduction of Apple's Siri
(an intelligent e-agent) gave us a taste of how advanced our phones
could be. As Siri-like agents rapidly advance, they will turn into
personal assistants, searching the web for you and delivering focused,
highly relevant information based on how well it knows you.
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Your phone will know your
preferences, likes, and needs. It will automatically compile, present,
and share what's pertinent to you.
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Additionally, forget just
talking to a faceless voice. Your intelligent e-agent will have a face
when you are looking at the screen and a personality that you choose.
You'll even see
celebrities and cartoon characters licensing the rights to their digital
likeness and personality, to be used as intelligent e-agents for both
adults and children.
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2. Many smartphones won't have a screen. The traditional smart phone with a screen will not go away, but you will have an option for a screen-less smart phone.
This will be a very
popular and highly adopted smart phone because without the screen, you
get rid of much of the need for a big battery.
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Think of the screen-less smart phone like the little piece of jewelry people wore on the old Star Trek TV show. The screen-less smart phone will be touch and voice activated.
When you tap it, you'll
be connected to your intelligent e-agent, which is part of a super
computer in the cloud. Whatever you need, your intelligent e-agent will
be able to verbally give you the information, such as turn-by-turn
directions and your email content
3. Augmented reality will make life easier.
With augmented reality (AR), you use your smartphone camera to see a
live image of a scene in front of you, and an AR app will overlay on the
screen pertinent details about the image.
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For example, you can
activate the AR app and using your phone's camera, point the camera to a
far off mountain range, and text will overlay onto the image
indicating, for example, the name of the mountains, their elevation and
typical fauna.
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The app does this by using the device's GPS, digital compass, and motion sensors to detect where you're pointing the camera.
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But it can go much further.
Imagine walking down a
busy shopping district looking for a shoe store that sells a particular
brand. With AR, you could tell your phone what you want and then pan
your phone's camera down the street.
The name of each store
and what brands they sell will appear on your screen, overlaid on the
image of the street. Even better, this technology could also be used
inside large stores to help you find specific items.
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4. Your smart phone will have a 3D display and a 3D web browser ... and you won't need special glasses to view it.
Instead of just viewing web pages on your smart phone, you'll be able
to go into environments (or stores or showrooms) and maneuver around in
them, just as you do on devices like the Xbox.
Alternatively, you'll be able to see things sticking out from the screen, again without the special glasses.
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5. Your smart phone will increasingly become your wallet. Our wallets are switching from being leather to being phone-based.
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That means we will use
cash and physical credit cards less often, instead making purchases
using our smart phones. This makes security even more important.
We will use cash and physical credit cards less often, instead making purchases using our smart phones
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We already have
near-field communications (NFC) chips taking hold in smart phones. These
chips can help to speed a transaction when you're buying something. You
just get your smart phone close to a cash register that's equipped with
a NFC reader and you can do the transaction.
The use of biometrics
will also increase as an identifier of who you are. This will include
having fingerprint readers like the latest iPhone, audio analysis of
your voice, and facial recognition features in phones.
By using all these things together -- your fingerprint, voice, and face -- your phone will provide a secure payment method.
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This is just a small
sampling of what we'll see for future smart phone technology. All of
these advancements are in their early stages today.
So keep in mind that if it can be done, it will be done. The question is, who will be first?
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