The next battleground: The 4th Era of Personal Computing — from stevebrownfuturist.com by Steve Brown
Excerpt:
I believe we are moving into the fourth era of personal computing. The first era was characterized by the emergence of the PC. The second by the web and the browser, and the third by mobile and apps.
The fourth personal computing platform will be a combination of IOT, wearable and AR-based clients using speech and gesture, connected over 4G/5G networks to PA, CaaS and social networking platforms that draw upon a new class of cloud-based AI to deliver highly personalized access to information and services.
So what does the fourth era of personal computing look like? It’s a world of smart objects, smart spaces, voice control, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.
Yeah, I’m really eager to see these technologies used for learning. Especially weareables – could you imagine orientation courses when all the information about a particular workstation or item would simply be overlaid on the glasses’ lens? It would be really great, and it’s just the tip of an iceberg.
Yes, good call Nikos.
If we were to be able to be transported into the future in just 5-10 years from now, I think we’d be amazed at the changes that would have already occurred by then.
Daniel
Definetely – the progress is getting quicker and quicker.