Yesterday, I delivered the closing keynote presentation at Optus Vision2013 in Sydney, Australia. The title of my talk was “Tomorrow’s Technology Today.” As I recently said, tomorrow is rapidly catching up with today but to further appreciate just how quickly mobile, social, and cloud technologies are converging with “Big Data” and the “Internet of Things” watch this short video on a new app called MindMeld. Then ask yourself this question: Why are Intel, Samsung and Telefonica all backing Expect Labs, the innovative start-up company that is producing this technology?
The answer is because none of these companies can afford to consider themselves just a chip manufacturer, an electronics company or a telecommunication provider. All of today’s technological trends are melding together under the accelerating pace of change to deliver to the customer a seamless and transparent experience that connects them with their friends and the wider world. The companies that understand this powerful paradigm shift will be the ones to prosper in tomorrow’s world.
My further guess is that these companies are also looking at Google’s latest project, Project Glass, and wondering how they stay relevant in the coming era of wearable computing.
