Limas futuras:Mobiles Will Rule The Future
Posted On: 10 July 2008 By: Jay Oatway Filed Under: No Strings
If Kevin Kelly is to be believed (and I’m sure he is), then humanity will soon become one giant brain connected via mobile internet devices [via Wired]
Never mind Web 3.0: The next stage in technological evolution is a single worldwide computer. Collectively, we are already assembling this megacomputer from our billions of Net-connected PCs, cell phones, PDAs, and the like. As an increasing number and variety of devices are lashed to one another via the Internet and other communication systems, they form the components of what we might call the One Machine.
Its circuit board encompasses the million copper wires and radio connections linking all the chips contained in the gadgets in your pocket, office, and car. Instead of being powered by a mere billion tiny transistors, as your typical personal desktop is, it runs on a billion PC chips, each with its own billion transistors. Its memory is the collective hard disks and flash drives of the world. Its RAM is the sum of all memory chips online. Every second, a Library of Congress worth of data flows through it. The program it runs — its initial OS — is the World Wide Web.
But the Machine contains a million times more transistors than you have neurons in your head. And, unlike your brain, it’s growing at a rate that outpaces Moore’s law. By 2040, the planetary computer will attain as much processing power as all 7 billion human brains on Earth.
This is great news for me. I’ve just started as editor of a mobile lifestyle magazine called Charged.
I apologize to all my loyal Portension readers for not posting much here lately. I’ve been busy blogging for Charged and writing/editing their print magazine.
It’s been a great learning experience. It doesn’t take a futurist to predict that mobiles are going to change the world. But when you start to look closely at everything that’s happening in mobility, it becomes clear that this revolution is well underway. It won’t take until 2040 before life is changed so completely that we barely remember how to function without our mobiles — maybe 2014.
Ready or not, the future is on the move.
