Check out the image to the right. Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. I’d like to thank the fine folks at Crave.com for bringing to my attention both this article as well as the artist’s conception of what a future navigational device might look like.
I have written before about the future of the cellphone, but just imagine if your next cellphone could display real-time information about your surrounding environment? In the future, the windshields of cars could also display information about what you are driving by, or a shopper could use the device to scan a food item for nutritional information, or your doctor could use it to quickly pull up all of your health records.
On the flip side, it is also easy to imagine how the police might just as easily scan your face to check if you have any outstanding parking tickets, or how some creep could pull up your Facebook profile to find out information about you.
Regardless, this technology is just around the proverbial corner and if you want to “jump the curve,” now is the time to begin considering how it will transform your business.
Jack Uldrich is a writer, futurist, public speaker and host of jumpthecurve.net. He is the author of seven books, including Jump the Curve and The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business. He is also a frequent speaker on future technology and future trends, nanotechnology, robotics, RFID, innovation, change management and executive leadership to a variety of businesses, industries and non-profit organizations and trade associations.
