Pervasive, transparent search and inferencing services
This amazing mobile device mock-up (I'd love one for my birthday tomorrow!), is described by Hard Geek as having "advanced search function". Is this how I would describe it, or how the average user would describe it? Rather, by the time this level of hardware technology is available, the concept of "search" will (should?) have disappeared (to the user at least), and devices will instead should have a seamless understanding of the world around them, including an intimate semantic understanding of their user's short- and long-term goals. No (or very very few) explicit search boxes; instead, they will be extremely context aware, where context includes: geography, orientation, weather, user history, user voice conversation, user goal(s), interactions with other users' similar (trusted and untrusted) devices, specific user inquiries etc. Devices such as this one would be giant (transparent for the most part) mashups, deriving their suggestions and answers fr...