No more than 10 years ago the mobile was purely a device for making voice calls. Now it is a camera, music player, organiser and texting device in addition. This is only the start of an evolution over the next 20 years that will turn it into our trusted and indispensable companion in life. The mobile has changed beyond recognition over the last 20 years but that is just the start of things to come in the next two decades.
It is predicted that on a typical day it will start working even before you wake. Because it knows your travel schedule it can check for problems on the roads or with the trains, and adjust the time it wakes you up accordingly, presenting you with the best route into work. Mobiles will continue to get steadily better, with higher resolution touch-screens, speech recognition that really works and much greater memory and storage capabilities.
Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.
So instead of the train company sending you a text to tell you of delays, it will send it to your mobile, which will analyse it in conjunction with your travel plans and modify those plans if needs be.
This evolution will be a slow but steady progress, as each few years mobiles get slightly better, intelligent software evolves and the various providers of all the necessary input data, such as transport organisations and shops, gradually make the data available in formats that become increasingly useful.
It is predicted that on a typical day it will start working even before you wake. Because it knows your travel schedule it can check for problems on the roads or with the trains, and adjust the time it wakes you up accordingly, presenting you with the best route into work. Mobiles will continue to get steadily better, with higher resolution touch-screens, speech recognition that really works and much greater memory and storage capabilities.
Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.
So instead of the train company sending you a text to tell you of delays, it will send it to your mobile, which will analyse it in conjunction with your travel plans and modify those plans if needs be.
This evolution will be a slow but steady progress, as each few years mobiles get slightly better, intelligent software evolves and the various providers of all the necessary input data, such as transport organisations and shops, gradually make the data available in formats that become increasingly useful.
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