| By the end of this decade almost anyone who | | | | devices, will always open the flood gates for |
| has a mobile phone or any other wireless | | | | discussion on the infinite number of applications |
| hand-held device will have more computing power | | | | that could be made. But if we are looking for |
| in their hands than was available hardly two | | | | what we call the killer apps that would make a big |
| decades ago on a high-end desktop PC. | | | | difference to our life styles, then I would bet my |
| This is without any consideration to the bandwidth | | | | two cents on these over the next decade...... |
| backbones required to power the grids supporting | | | | * Health and Science ..... real-place, real-time, |
| wireless communication (e.g. DS3 Bandwidth and | | | | meta-tagged health information will build a national |
| greater such as OC3 bandwidth or more ... likely | | | | database for health & disease tracking. Mobile |
| ethernet too). | | | | computing power in human health sciences is |
| So, this being the case, where do you see the | | | | essential for cutting administrative costs within the |
| game changing application of such enormous | | | | system. (Part of the Obama stimulus fund to |
| computing power? I am not talking about | | | | digitize the health field will help supply health |
| programing your DVRs or watching a rerun of a | | | | science data.) |
| show on your hand-held ....... | | | | * Social Experience / Interaction ..... Increase |
| Mobile technology will continue to surprise (delight?) | | | | capacity for broadband wireless networks (4G, |
| us with all its ever increasing computation, | | | | LTE etc.) will help to equip business & home |
| bandwidth, form-factor, input/output options, | | | | with video telephony for virtual, life-like interaction, |
| content, and applications being spawned by the | | | | means less travel for employees of global |
| 1000s every day (thanks to application stores | | | | companies, as well as providing new opportunities |
| such as the iTunes appstore). | | | | for those who are not yet global. Foreign trade |
| But the question is about "disruptive" and "game | | | | will spring up in a new generation. Must bring down |
| changing". The real power, the disruption, and the | | | | the in-home networking complexity and costs. |
| game-changing will emerge when the bulk of | | | | Verizon's "the Hub" is a baby step toward this. |
| society embraces the facilities on offer. That is | | | | * Mobile, global money ..... I don't know enough |
| the bottleneck. Getting too excited about | | | | about global finance systems to answer with any |
| technology specs is probably naive. Back in the | | | | certainty, but I suspect mobile transactions will |
| Apollo days we reached the moon with just half | | | | provide a huge and stealthy disturbance to our |
| the computing power of about one Intel Intel | | | | ways of working/buying now. Currency and |
| 80386 PC. But since then growth in productivity | | | | exchange will change mediums from the days of |
| GDP etc. has not followed Moores law (although | | | | cash/credit to "no contact" financial exchange. |
| computer processing power has). We've had MMS | | | | I only state these particular examples because |
| phones for many years now, but how come SMS | | | | there is demand developing with a new generation |
| still rules in messaging? | | | | who will come of age after a down turned |
| The game changing devices, technologies, and | | | | economy has recovered; the technology is |
| applications are already here (or can be built within | | | | already present; other countries are already |
| a few months). But does the average John Doe | | | | implementing them. |
| want to play the game? | | | | So .... it could happen. |
| Any discussion on Applications of the mobile | | | | |