He’s optimistic about the future of flexible too: “Flexible electronics is a reality, already proven through the development and manufacture of plastic, bendable displays and sensors. For the first time a fully organic, plastic, flexible AMOLED demonstration has been achieved with a real industrial fabrication process. This marks the start of a revolution in wearable products, the next frontier in consumer electronics – 2014 is the year that wearable technology starts to go mainstream.”
MMO
In 1909, the visionary writer EM Forster wrote a short story called ‘The Machine Stops’ where human interaction had been reduced to contact through ‘the machine’, rather than actual physical contact. It seems that Forster foresaw the future, as in the last 10 years MMO (massively multiplayer online) gaming has become one of the most common forms of recreational interaction. In the next 10 years we predict that the same will happen in other aspects of life, including educational modules (known as MOOCs or Massively Online Open Courses). Even politicians are getting in on the MMO trend, with President Obama conversing with voters through ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Reddit and Google Hangouts.
The Internet of Things
