When I was writing for Seagate.com, there was constant talk of the storage cloud, and cloud computing, and how people where going to interface with their content in the times to come. You know, being able to access any type of information and all of your pictures, documents, music, and videos from wherever you might be, at any time. It was the conversations along these lines that caused me to grow fascinated by the way we will use technology in the future to communicate with each other, as well as the technology itself.
As further evidence of the coming communications convergence, we have this mind-boggling TED talk by MIT’s Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry, who are suggesting the possibility of being able to interact with both our environment and our information in a revolutionary new way. The profoundly amazing thing about this talk is that it suggests the development of a new, sixth sense: one that would give us seamless access to information in a way that integrates technology into our lives, or maybe ourselves into technology, in a Minority Report sort of way that uses any surface to fully connect us with the Matrix–and likely make your laptop and iPhone completely obsolete.
d, thanks for the link.
