The document discusses predictions for how interaction and technology may change over the next 10 years. By 2025, it predicts that:
1. Virtual reality technology will blur the lines between real and virtual interactions, allowing people to meet in virtual environments across long distances. Physical locations will lose importance.
2. Brain-computer interfaces could allow for direct thought transmission, diminishing the need for speech, writing, or typing. This could create issues around information overload.
3. 3D printing will significantly change shopping habits, with people ordering goods to be printed and delivered rather than visiting physical stores. Advertising may also increasingly utilize virtual environments like 3D holograms.
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2. The world 10 years ago:
2005:
-Mobile phone is a major distant
interaction gadget (and rather
expensive though!)
- My parents who live in small town 1500 km
away from me, fantasize over short phone
calls:
- That would be just so great, if we could
see each other while talking!
-Skype is close to launching video calling
- "TheFacebook" just just hits 1m users
worldwide
-Twitter doesnt exist yet
->90% of people in the world still send
letters to each other by post
3. Technologies changed interaction massively:
-You dont need to live next door to your family and friends
to stay closely in touch
-You can make all your acquaintances aware of your opinion
or life events just with one post
-You can gather 100 colleagues from all over the world on
the meeting with no travel expenses
Where will it move further?
4. Interaction in 2025*:
1. Tactile Hologram meeting: difference between real
and virtual interaction will completely blur:
Physical location will lose the meaning:
- Friends will meet up in virtual bars, will virtually go
together to a virtual concert or to visit each other house
across the continent
- Distance relationship and even distance marriage will
become more common
- Business conferences and meetings will be held in virtual
conference rooms: offices will almost disappear.
The picture of future in 10 years is built
for the countries which are currently at the
5. Interaction in 2025:
2. Intellectual body microchip: increasing interaction speed
Writing and typing skills will start to diminish (and maybe talking too!):
- Telepathy will become reality people will be able to transfer
thoughts and ideas sending signals via implanted chips, typing messages
would become unnecessary. Some people will forget talking either
- Posts on social media, including images and video, would come
directly from the brain, which would create massive information
overload. People will learn to express full messages in 3-5 words
- The thought-management would be studied at school and adult
people would frequent thought and memory control counsellor.
6. Interaction in 2025:
3. 3D-printing: shopping habits would completely change
Traditional shopping will almost disappear:
- Friends will be sending presents to each other via printer - 3D-designer,
print-delivery and print-repairing services will be among peoples
most important contacts/apps
- For grocery shopping there would be continuing fight between 3D-adepts
and 3D-food opponents (on the basis of health risks and taste), this will
divide audience on those who will order via print-delivery and those who
will do online-grocery. Both ways though would eliminate interaction with
vendor and vendor location
- Advertisers and promoters due to above as well will switch from
interacting with consumers in-store to 3D promo-holograms, 3D-print
sampling, sometimes turning into 3D-spam, until regulation is developed