The Future Now Jon Trinder University of Glasgow [email_address] [email_address]

Outline of Presentation I nteresting Times Technology coming to mainstream Consumers or Producers The Future Used To Be Better Misc Thoughts

I nteresting Times

Technology coming to mainstream

Consumers or Producers

The Future Used To Be Better

Misc Thoughts

History http://members.surfeu.at/org2/psion1/ 1984 1996 1999 1993

Mobile Learning..Is the Glass Half Full Half Empty Twice as big as it needs to be The Wrong glass

Half Full

Half Empty

Twice as big as it needs to be

The Wrong glass

Edges of Field Often defined by rivers….. River = ££££££££ Shhhh keep quiet about failures!

Often defined by rivers…..

River = ££££££££

Shhhh keep quiet about failures!

New Technology Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. [Douglas Adams, Peter Guzzardi, Terry Jones, The Salmon of Doubt]

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

[Douglas Adams, Peter Guzzardi, Terry Jones, The Salmon of Doubt]

Combination Devices

Expect the unexpected Eg Ultramobiles eeePC QR Codes

RFID

GPS GPS In Devices Geocaching Context Awareness

GPS In Devices

Geocaching

Context Awareness

Hear come the talkies Projectors on phones Even more storage “ Here come the talkies, obsolescence guaranteed; here come the talkies, don't you see? “ (lyrics from www.sofasound.com)‏

Projectors on phones

Even more storage

New Interfaces

Consumers or Producers

Who has a blog? 65000 Vids posted on YouTube per day Over 50% blogs made by people under 19

65000 Vids posted on YouTube per day

Over 50% blogs made by people under 19

Social Networking “ Social networking spawned by the internet allows communities worldwide to revert to the close-knit culture of preindustrial society, in which nearly every member of a tribe or a farming hamlet knew everything about the neighbours”

“ Social networking spawned by the internet allows communities worldwide to revert to the close-knit culture of preindustrial society, in which nearly every member of a tribe or a farming hamlet knew everything about the neighbours”

Other Sectors

Schools……

Meanwhile in HE

The Future Used to be Better

Unexpected Consequences The re-use of materials & mashups Infamy in an instant Mistakes captured for posterity

The re-use of materials & mashups

Infamy in an instant

Mistakes captured for posterity

Random Observations

The Song Remains the Same Need to get content to and from devices Need to power the device Have compatible content Speed of change

Need to get content to and from devices

Need to power the device

Have compatible content

Speed of change

Batteries and Charging

Final Thoughts... “ Manifestly it is better to use simple tools expertly than to possess a bewildering assortment of complicated gadgets and either neglect or use them incompetently” LTC Rolt, 1947

“ Manifestly it is better to use simple tools expertly than to possess a bewildering assortment of complicated gadgets and either neglect or use them incompetently”

LTC Rolt, 1947