The never ending gadgetification

Was reading in every news site and blogs about Apple iPad. Everyone is talking about how it is a game changer, a revolution in publishing industry. Few clips on you tube and you know Apple is going to change how we read magazines and books...the same way they changed the way we listen to music.

But before you put a $ sign in the debit column for this gadget...hold on and zoom on to the old giant 'Microsoft' and it's upcoming gadget 'Courier'. For last few years, Microsoft is loosing it to Google and Apple. But, after all they are sitting on a huge cash and with a lot of people with brain power on its payroll. So, as expected Microsoft is finally trying to catch up.

If Apple is changing the way we read magazines and books, Microsoft Courier is changing the way we use our gadgets. The way we access information. Then, there is the powerhouse, Google, who people say, hired the top 10% of world's talent over last couple of years. They are not going to get satisfied by placing just the adds on a Apple or a MS device, rather it would become more and more interested in having their own presence in hardware landscape, they just hit a bulls eye with 'Nexus One', arguably the best smart phone ever, according to many reviews till date.

Don't discount the new players in the arena who might come up in big way like MS came in 1980s and Google in early 2000's. Amazon is another likely to follow suit, and the traditional PC makers HP and Dell too, sooner or later, venture into smart world.

Going back to the original subject of this blog...where we will end up? I can see in near future students going to school with just a device... with textbooks downloaded...what a reprieve from the heavy bags! Students can write onto the screen of the device, save it in a file (for more see how MS Courier works on You tube) no need to keep you note book and worry about all those important notes you had taken during classes.

Apart from ease of access this will definitely save the environment as less papers will be consumed. Books to be published via e-route, already Dan Brown set the path with 'The Lost Symbol'. Well all these were to happen in very near future...In distant future?

I can visualize, a single device...having a size of a palm (or less)....having few 'Zeta' or 'Yetta' bytes of memory in it. You can talk, read, write, watch, surf with the device. It will store your biographical records...and hence it will be obviously have bio detection in it. The gadget will store your medical, academic, credit histories (or other sorts of history). It will be projector too... project the to a screen...no need of a big screen TV or PC...It will obviously be connected to the cloud...past will be the days of background, education, employment verification process...it is all stored in your device...you get a degree..the university will insert a record in your device and the cloud which you can not change..same as when you leave or join a job.

Gone will be the days you had fat wallets with all sorts of cards in it..believe me...my wallet has at least 12 cards as per my last count, ranging from my credit card to local club access card. Your 'Personal Device' (PD) will have all the required information and authorization.

But human brain will not stop here either...probably a chip inserted somewhere in your body will make your organs function like computers, it can download information on your brain, you can type an email by just a few finger movements, which will be downloaded into recipient's brain. your lips and ear can perform as cell phones, may be not even a chip...a liquid injection in your body will make you a e-human. Your body will automatically call for help when something go wrong, your skin will be climate controlled...your body cells will be data repositories ultimate secure storage...possibilities are endless, the innovation will go on...never ending....

As human being we will keep innovating till we can keep the old knowledge intact...if we can not do that, we have to start from lighting a fire....designing a wheel...

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