Maybe you are fascinated by your iPhone…maybe it’s become common to you.
The speed at which technology is changing is mind boggling and you probably only see the surface.
The future is a combination of a multitude of movements and innovations including wearables, robotics, automation, shared resources, and entirely new ecosystems of applications.
If you look at technologies like IFTTT and Zapier, you can see into the near future where wearables and the internet of things will be able to activate triggers and automation in our lives.
Your refrigerator will order you milk from the grocery store, your car will tell your house when you are close by in order to preheat the oven, and your wrist watch will open the door, let you pay for coffee, and anonymously contribute your heartbeat to a big pool of data for medical researchers to begin working on the next miracle drug or nanotech solution.
Your email will see your travel itinerary and notify your cleaning service to prep the house for the AirBNB listing that is automatically triggered three days before you leave. And don’t worry about getting a ride to the airport because your autonomous self-driving Uber will be waiting outside your door to take you to the airport 90 minutes before your flight…more if there’s traffic..
It’s not science fiction. Some of this is already here.
The question is, how much of this are you thinking about, prepared for, or conscious of?