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Good morning Jim. It's going to be a cold day today. How would you like to start your morning? Twitter, facebook, Email, check your blog posts? The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today have been downloaded to your tablet. Your iPhone is fully charged and synced and you have 5 video messages. No coffee for you today, your blood pressure and heart rate are to high. Have a nice day.
Except for the automated computer voice, this scenario is played out across the world today. There was a time when one got up and the day started slowly with a cup of coffee, a stretch and a quick walk outside to get the newspaper. Those days are quickly fading as we automate our lives and thirst for more information in a timely manner. Today's more modern family still may wake to the smell of coffee brewing form the automatic high tech coffee maker, but the attraction to connect has become too great. Connecting with our friends on facebook first thing in the morning takes precedents (sometimes before we say good morning to our kids).
It's not just happening in your house its happening almost everywhere you turn and if companies like Verizon, AT&T, facebook, Twitter, etc., etc. have there way you will be connected all day, everywhere. It has gotten so bad that it is like a drug (not that I have experience with drugs) once hooked the addition continues. When there is an outage or facebook doesn't connect correctly our lives go into free fall. Most people do not dare disconnect for even a vacation, sneaking a peek at their Blackberry in the bathroom, worried that a rumor of their death may appear on Twitter. I am afraid friends, it is too late, we are addicted and this is only the beginning.
The future is closer than you may think. At this years Consumers Electronic Show a wide variety of Internet ready devices we shown with facebook and Twitter embedded directly into the device. It's only a matter of time before your refrigerator and microwave are facebook aware and will announce to you and your friends its status. Microsoft provides an interesting glimpse into the future in this video. Today the interfaces are not this smooth, but this level of connectivity is just around the corner.
So my advice is tomorrow, when you wake up, enjoy that cup of coffee or glass of orange juice because before you know it your coffee maker will be friends with your refrigerator and they may update their status to conspire against you during your technology breakfast.
The future is closer than you may think. At this years Consumers Electronic Show a wide variety of Internet ready devices we shown with facebook and Twitter embedded directly into the device. It's only a matter of time before your refrigerator and microwave are facebook aware and will announce to you and your friends its status. Microsoft provides an interesting glimpse into the future in this video. Today the interfaces are not this smooth, but this level of connectivity is just around the corner.
So my advice is tomorrow, when you wake up, enjoy that cup of coffee or glass of orange juice because before you know it your coffee maker will be friends with your refrigerator and they may update their status to conspire against you during your technology breakfast.
I have a couple of comments: First, I've made it a point to try to avoid bringing communication technology devices (other than the cordless phone) into the bedroom since I don't want to feel like I need to sit up first thing in the morning and check Facebook, Twitter, and email. I need the "coffee time" to get going before reading (and more importantly answering) things in order to try to get my brain in gear.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I think the issue with some of the "vision" videos like the one from Microsoft is that although they are certainly intended to be conceptual, not detailed, this is a case where the visuals are almost everything and don't (to me at least) give a clear vision of what they are trying to do.
Finally, I couldn't help but laugh at one particular scene: When was the last time you saw that much space on an airplane.