Future Technology: a bit of Human

Can you imagine your cellphone already talking to you? Which will be telling you what choice is which. Helping you out on your everyday living. More like your own best friend. Maybe it even has a better intelligence than you do.  That's how it is in the future.  Believe it or not. 

 

 Let's see how Fabian Hemmert suggests this possibility to happen.

 

 This talk about what the future holds for our technology opens our eyes to the possibilities that technology would soon be equivalent to humanism. As what was demonstrated by Fabian Hemmert in his talk, he demonstrates the possible living mobile phone. A living phone which adopts, moves, and feels. More like a human, huh? He based this “future living phone” from us, humans. He thinks of what advancements can be further made based on what we already have. He mixed the physicality of humans with digitality of mobiles and made it as a tool to find what is in the future of mobile phones...

 

 Fabian Hemmert talked about 3 possible options of what is next to touch phones and wii's with it's need of physical presence of a person for it to work.

 

 First, he finds the need of mass. The “weight-shifting mobile”. It is a mobile that uses gravity as a very important tool. It tells where a certain object is just by its gravity. It could be best used for navigation. It can lead you to where you want to go even only by touching it while carrying it. By its weight-shifting feature, you can identify on which direction you must go. It uses weight for you to identify where your center is and where you are. Where the mass is more likely to be heavier, is the indication that it is there, whatever it must have to be, it is there. Surely, you'll always find that phone as handy as could ever be. And that is all because of mass...

 

 Second, he looks for the thickness and thinness of its shape. And now shows a “shape-changing mobile”. It has the ability to adjust to what size or position you want it to be. It adjusts to the space it is inquired to take and takes the position of your hand as a guide to what position it must take. Where it is thicker, there is more content. What is best about this phone is that it can expand in all directions that makes it as useful as possible. It's adoptation to its environment and to its content makes it more amazing to have. You don't have to find a comfortable and accesible way just to enjoy the features of this phone because it will personally make that job for you. It offers you full quality time and a comfortable chance to enjoy having your mobile phone on hand.

 

 Third, he likes an intuitive kind. And there is the ”living mobile phone”. A phone that practically acts like a human. And has a heart and could breath. Not really so literally, but you could see its figure, moving and breathing as if it is really organic or some kind. You could imagine having it, from being relaxed and then getting excited, and when it is patted in its back, it would then be back to normal. Imagine having it like a pet of yours. A pet that gets excited when sees something that amazes it and would be calmed by its owner by patting it. It's like you can always know that that person is alive seeing him/her moving and breathing. That is the main purpose of this mobile phone. You don't have to look at it and check it just to know if it is still with you or if you received a phone call or a text message. By simply feeling it movement, you can easily identify what is happening or if there is happening in your mobile phone.

 

 So you see, this is how our future will become. Technology as more human. A good way for digital to be graspable to humans, by being like humans. You see, development of such creations can be useful to us. Hopefully, it wouldn't be a reason for humans to change their way of living from positive to negative. Let's use these technologies in the right way.

Future Technology: a bit of Human by Monica Flores is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.