Every – single – day something new and improved is
produced and we as consumers have to do our best to keep up. I remember the
first cell phone I got 9 years ago, it was a measly little flip phone that took
the most pixilated pictures that are probably unrecognizable today. But for me
it was everything. Today I look around at all the new technologies the world
has to offer and it is quite overwhelming.
This new technology is affecting every facet of our lives,
including our use of Social Media. As I was researching and jumping around from
blog to blog I was able to find some exciting information about up and coming
new technologies and how they will be affecting our world and the way we do
social media. Here are a few things I discovered:
Do you ever have those days at the end of the month when you’ve
got the text you’re your phone provider that you have used 99.99997% of your
data for the month – but you’ve still got 4 days left in the month. If you’re
anything like me, you about want to shout hallelujah when you see the “free
wifi” sign at your local McDonalds. Soon internet will be available EVERYWHERE!
Check out this blog to read more
"We are on the verge of the “internet of everywhere”. It will
be far more democratic: accessible to everyone, rich and poor. The excitement
of the internet of things will be a small footnote in history as the internet
of everywhere becomes our reality. Do you remember the old movie, Minority Report,
with Tom Cruise? Ultra cheap, internet-enabled solar-powered screens that
display in HDTV resolution will be on bus stops, in shopping centers, at tables
in restaurants – all operating on a centralized advertising model. Gone are the
days of the static acetate poster on the wall of a shopping mall. And finally,
since these HD monitors have beacons, they will dynamically change content as
your phone passes by, telling the monitor all your preferences. Yobie
Benjamin, COO of Avegant"
According to this blog – soon we could be “sharing” our
phones, and just about everything else. http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/15/what-technology-will-look-like-in-five-years/
"Revised Notions Of Ownership: Think of the
things you use every day: your smart phone, your computer, your desk and so on.
You own most — if not all — of those things. However, in the future, you’ll
probably share most of them. We’ve recently seen a huge rise in the sharing
economy; not only can you stay in someone else’s house via Airbnb, but you can
sail in someone else’s boat through Sailo, fly in
someone else’s private plane via OpenAirplane and go snowboarding with
someone’s else’s board via Spinlister. This is only the first wave.
Major players like Google, Apple and Uber are developing car technology so
that, in five years, rather than driving to the office in a car you own, you’ll
drive to work in a car you ordered on your cell phone that morning. If you
wanted, you could drive a different make and model every day."I found this awesome BLOG POST on Network World, which discussed 10 new technologies that will be surfacing in the next ten years. While each one of these inventions is diverse, I think that they each will play a role in the world of social media. Some of the technologies this blog discusses are a “zettaflood of data” available to users, an increased amount of data will live or pass through the cloud – up to 1/3, it discussed how smaller the world is getting because of our ability to talk with anyone anywhere around the world, as well as the discussion of “human or borg”. It’s a crazy world we are living in and so much is going on around us. New technologies are being developed every day – these technologies are ever changing the way we live, communication and socialize on the web.
Be prepared – a lot is coming!
