Sunday 6 November 2011

Past, Present & Future

Ask a child if they know what a Pager is and they will probably look at you blank. It wasn’t so long ago that Pagers were the latest technology. It is the same for those huge analogue mobile phones and their enormous battery packs people used to carry around.

Today we have email, social media and Internet on our mobile phones, not to mention cameras, Bluetooth, apps and Satellite Navigation. Processors are evolving too and offering the functionality of HD video recording, streaming, voice control and even artificial intelligence.

This year, Motorola released the Atrix. A Smart Phone that can be used in a laptop carcass or a docking station (with a keyboard and monitor) as a PC replacement. The device sets a trend because it utilises the phone’s processor to power different pieces of equipment.

So what is the future? Well what if mobiles could integrate with a human body. What if pharmaceutical companies replaced medication with software which monitored and tweaked our DNA through telemetry? Would we ever get ill? Would heart-attacks still occur? Would hospitals need to exist? Furthermore, would humans still need to age?