HCI – the next decade

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" said Thomas Watson (the chairman of IBM) back in 1943. This is a very good example on how hard it is for us to even imagine the future with all its possibilities. You have probably heard this before but technology is evolving really fast. Soon the only boundaries of what we can accomplish will be our own mindset of what is possible. Which of course in many ways is a good thing, but it makes it very hard to predict the distant future. Still we're boldly sticking our heads out of the train window, trying to figure out if the next turn is a left or a right, but the mist is getting thicker...

Here is a little prediction from Ericsson about how we will use and interact with computers in the future, they believe that more than 50 billion things, everything from cellphones to stuff in our home will be computers, connected to each other.

The movie shows, in a very clear way, how we might use the next decades technology and how it will improve our lives. If you don't believe this is possible very soon, just take a look at apples Iphone 5's new features:

References:

http://www.slideshare.net/chris_khalil/the-future-of-hci-intelligent-user-interfaces-as-agents-of-change

http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead