2. It's a cliché for journalists to whine about International CES, the annual
consumer electronics show. As many have complained CES long ago
devolved into a noisy parade of puffed-up announcements that usually
amount to nothing. But if news from CES feels especially desultory this year,
it might not be the show that's at fault, blame the tech cycle. We're at a
weird moment in the industry: The best new stuff is not all that cool, and the
coolest stuff isn't quite ready.
It's not that today's tech is terrible -lots of potentially groundbreaking ideas
are just around the corner. In product labs across the world, engineers and
designers are working to turn a collection of annoying buzzwords -artificial
intelligence, virtual reality, wearables, the “Internet of things“, autonomous
cars and drones -into products that we find irresistible.
3. Contd…
They are all pushing the limits of what machines can currently accomplish,
and working to come up with business models that customers will stomach.
In time many of these technologies might become mainstays. But that future
will take a few years to pan out. In the meantime, you can expect to be
bombarded with early versions of tomorrow's tech that are bound to feel
janky and incomplete. Welcome to Prototype World, a brief inter mission in
your regularly scheduled programme of disruption, during which everything
new will more or less stink.
“We're in those awkward teenage years where everything looks and feels
funky,“ said Ben Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies.
Over the next couple of CESes, there's a good chance we will see a lot of
devices that will feel not quite ready. “It will eventually cross that hump and
become mature, but it's not there right now,“ Bajarin said.
4. Contd…
What's unusual about the current moment is how many new,
interdependent technologies are coming about at the same time. We're in
the middle of a grand cycle in technology. Even if smartphones and social
networks have lots of room to grow before conquering the world, they feel
like old, mature tech.
This is an industry that moves on anticipation of the next great thing. The
trouble is, the cycle is just getting started. To understand what it's like to live
in Prototype World, consider Apple's current hiccups. All this could be grand:
A few years from now, if you believe the boosters in Vegas this week.Our
homes will be connected, our drones will be autonomous and our phones
will sizzle with artificial intelligence.
That's a good vision to keep in mind as you struggle, over the next few years,
to get anything to work as it should.
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