Well first off I am not very good at predicting the future and I don't think that many of us are. How many of us saw the world going from the "Zac Morris" cellphone, to the touchscreen IPhone's and Blackberry's. I think the incredible gains that we have made over the past 10-20 years will go down as some of the most important in technological history.
With that said, my vague predicting abilities see companies like Apple and Windows beginning to change their course of directions. For years, these companies have been dominators in the industry and provided us with everything we need in simple packeted programs and packages. These days, the trend is starting to change because I believe that our world is demanding the technology industry to keep finding more innovations. Take Microsoft Office for instance; Google and other online programs have created word processing, excel format, and presentation programs that individuals can use for free. As costs continue to be more and more of an issue for districts and companies, I believe that organizations will have to switch over to these free based software programs. I don't see Microsoft being able to market their software programs to individuals when people can go out and use somewhat the same program on the Internet.
I also see Google becoming even more of a dominate force in all technology. I have heard rumblings of a program that Google is working on that is suppose to be the end all of be all for technology programs. I have not really done any research into this new program, but I have heard in technology magazines that it is going to change the way that everyone will do personal computing.
Well I thought that the MotorRazr phone was the greatest thing that could be created until Apple came out with the revolutionizing IPhone. I will make a bold prediction that in the very near future, individuals will not be owning computers, they will be using their IPhone's and Blackberry's to run our world. Scary INDEED.
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Oh my! Someone else remembers the "Zack Morris" cell phone. Wasn't it the biggest damn phone you've ever seen? Thank God for Blackberry! With my phone I have a computer, internet, GPS, and a telephone all in one. I never would have thought.
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Google is even coming out with a cell phone! They just might take everything over.
My son has an iPhone. It has almost everything on it I could need online. The apps are amazing. I can't imagine doing a paper on it though. I wonder if minimally, we will have docking stations.
ReplyDeleteI laughed when I read your comment about the Zack Morris phone. I remember the first cell phone I had, I got it during my senior year of high school (2002). I pretty much used it for games and phone calls. I am shocked when I think that just 6 year later I started using an iPhone. I never would have imagined that. I also agree with your guess that Google will dominate the future in many different areas of technology.
ReplyDeleteNo iPhones in my house but I remember the Zack Morris too. I agree with you Nick that districts and businesses are going to look to freeware and this will in turn put pressure on Microsoft and others. I remember receiving a deal on WindowsME when in college (late 1990's) as Microsoft was working to make everyone feel as if they couldn't live without it! How far we've come in 10 years...
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