Speaking of the iPhone, Mooreville was concerned with how we would deal with the keyboard in mobile computing- we need something that we can type on, but we need it to be small. How? We can't make our fingers any skinnier, and our pockets aren't getting bigger. The solution came with the iPhone. Touchscreen. Which, also ironically, is pioneering it's way into speech-to-text with Siri, something Mooreville dismisses as never happening.
He mentions how smartphones will allow us to become more organized during protests. This is certainly true, twitter has allowed multiple revolutions to occur in the Middle East as well as here in the States, with Occupy Wallstreet. We also have flashmobs, a more playful evolution of this mass interconnectivity.
There's a list of things he gives that people are and will use technology for:
- Student use of wireless laptops during classroom lectures for real-time reference (e.g., to fact check the professor's claims) and backchannel communications with fellow students (i.e., the digital equivalent of passing notes).
- Calling your spouse from the video store to gauge interest in a specific movie or from the grocery store to ask where to find the hot chocolate.
- Googling a new acquaintance while waiting for him to arrive at a restaurant (he just called from the road to let you know he'd be five minutes late).
- Using a smartphone to check Amazon customer reviews (and prices) of books found while browsing inside a Barnes & Noble bookstore.
- Distributed, collaborative shopping by teenage girls using picture phones. How do you like this dress? Does this color look good on me? Should I buy one for you?
All of these (well, we facebook people, we don't google them) are now commonplace in our lives.
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