Technology has greatly impacted social interaction over the past 15 years through the rise of social media platforms and communication apps. It is predicted that over the next 10 years, technology will further blend the physical and digital worlds through augmented reality devices. This will allow for new forms of virtual social interaction and collaboration that can decrease geographical distances. However, over-reliance on technology also risks reduced in-person social skills and increased isolation unless a balance is maintained between online and offline socialization.

1. How do you imagine social interaction within
10 years, taking into consideration the impact
of technology on human relations?
Francisco Xu
IE Application 2015

2. Social interaction
Is the process by which we act and react to those around us. It
includes those acts people perform toward each other and the
responses they give in return
Channel Receiver Sender
Feedback
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3. Telephone
Postcards
EmailsLetters
SMS
Communication
in the past

4. Communication in the past
 Interaction between people has always been a crucial part of
mankind’s social life. It has evolved through time in order to improve
human communication
 People in the past used to relay in tools such as emails, SMS,
postcards, letters and telephone in order to send messages
 These tools were slow, expensive and sometimes unreliable

5. Communication in 2015

6. Communication in 2015
 Since 2000, we experienced a great leap of technological advances. We
assisted to the birth of Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and other social
networks that we use today
 Whatsapp and Snapchat are applications used by millions of people to
communicate instantly. The first one its almost a standard used mostly
in Europe and South America
 This tools are fast, reliable and the most important thing: they are free
to use

7. Some positive impacts of technology
 Access information and new from anywhere in the world
 Simplify the lives of the people
 Allow people to work from home so they can spend more time with family
and friends
 Allow people to express their opinion and their creativity via internet and
social networks
 Allow people meet others with similar interest via social networks
 Learn new cultures and understand them
 Learn new knowledge and languages
 Bring people closer closing the gap between distance

8. Some negative impacts of technology
 Privacy issues, such as personal documents and photos leaks
 Less human contact, loss of human social skill and increasing isolation
 Dependency on technology to perform communication
 A connected world generates more stress in order to maintain a
perfect identity image in both worlds
 More risk of abuse, such as slander on social networks

9. Social interaction within 10 years
 The future is to be always connected
 Thanks to the technology advances, people will interact in a more
“smart” way. Technology like Google Glass will help people in their
daily lives. For example, you can go shopping and scan a a product and
compare in online shops and see reviews about it

10. Social interaction within 10 years
 Communication between people can be hard if they speak in a
different language. In the future technology can help decrease it. For
example, Skype translate in the moment the receiver phrase in any
language you desire

11. Social interaction within 10 years
 Thanks to technology, in the future will blend the real world with the
virtual world. This will help people to decrease geographical distances
and make their life’s easier. For example with Microsoft Hololens you
can teach online like in a real class or help people from your home

12. Conclusion
 Thanks to the advance of the technology, it will help people make
their lives more easy and more closer. It always depends on how it is
used
 In the future, possibly the boundaries between real world and virtual
reality will be very small. All communication will use “smart” devices
 Techonology will help people to decrease human misunderstanding
caused by language