Technology for 2010, predictions, thoughts and comments
January 4th, 2010 by 
mariodc
So I wanted to make some predictions in not only where I see technology in the next decade, but comment and regurgitate on some things I’ve read, and agree with.
MOBILE SEARCHING
Some time in the next few years, youll simply be able to point your phone to something, almost anything, and become an expert on it in seconds. Imagine hearing a political speech, and being able to validate the truthfulness of the claims in real time. Search will be much more powerful, more real time, and more sophisticated than ever.
Computers are going smaller, storage is getting cheaper. Devices to hold every single film ever made. MP3 players to hold more music than you could ever listen to in a lifetime. Phones are becoming sensor rich, accelerometers, GPS chips, light and sound sensors, motion interpretation, camera’s, compasses and more. You can already search by voice and objects with Google Goggle.
SMART BUILDINGS
New materials such as lightweight photovoltaic fabric will soon be able to interact with the world outside and adjust the energy needed on the fly, to operate a building, heating and lighting etc. New computing power and custom software allows buildings to be fully built virtually, tested, manipulated and stressed before there even built in the real world.
BESPOKE MEDICINE
Medicine and healthcare will be fully customised. Drug companies will use genetic profiling to develop therapies which will provide much more tailored treatments for an invididual. Simpler tests will let GP’s and individials to test for and monitor medical conditions. In mental health, new computer tools will be used as an alternative to drugs, in depression, anorexia, dementia and learning difficulties. The GP’s surgery will drastically change also, new lower cost technologies are allowing the medical diganostics to be moved out of acute hospital settings to the GP practice, pharmacies, supermarkets and even the home. With the latest in IT development, data can instantly be made available for diagnosis with experts anywhere. Surgery will change, more serious medical conditions will be solved or managed through the keyhole deployment of medical devices inside the body, which could support some organ functions or deliver drugs and wirelessly provide human telemetry, reporting back to the doctors.
GOVERNMENT EVERYWHERE
Government will become fully mobile. You will discuss health diagnostics with your GP in real time, online. Childrens knowledge management will be tracked with real time data provided to parents, provided by an online portal. Behaivoural monitoring, CCTV feeds from the classroom to the parents mobile device. Chips in your car will tell the government how many carbon credits you need to purchase, your home will monitor its carbon footprint and report back to the government via real time feeds. You exceed your alotted carbon allowance, you pay extra.
The office of National Statistics will become the Data Office, continously polling the population two way, relaying employment, inflation, tax and other national metrics direct to users via handheld phones, PCs, TV and online.
MIND CONTROL TV
Gesture control plugins will be developed for your Sky box, much in the same way a Nintendo wii remote works, allowing you to pause, re-wind and forward, freeze frame and play video and live content, through hand gestures. No remote required.
Compatible programs will be televised allowing users to specify camera angles in real time by moving your head. You look up, the camera moves up. And of course, all this will be delivered in full high definition 3d.
CURE FOR CANCER
We mapped the human genome some time ago, ironically, we’ll cure cancer, but as we continue to develop evolutionary medicine to combat cancer, cancer will continue to evolve due to the heavy exposure we have to more RF as the airwaves are filled with higher frquency signals, radiation, microwaves, combined with we’re exposed to these at a much younger age, we’ll continue to chase that elusive cure.
If you want to take a look at two technological ideas that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end, take a look below.
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