Imagine it is ten years in the future. You may still be carrying around something around the size and weight of an iPhone in your pocket, but you never look at it.
The thing in your pocket is only there to help provide power and wireless connectivity. Your entire interface is contained in your hands, your voice, and the lightweight pair of glasses that you generally wear while walking about in populated areas.
I’ve been pondering the following question: What will be the equivalent of a homepage?
When you open up your notebook computer or Web browser today, you see, by default, a set of choices of things to do. You can customize your desktop or homepage, so that things you do most often are right at your fingertips.
Your SmartPhone has a similar set-up. You place the things that you access most often conveniently on your home screen.
But your “home screen or “homepage” or “desktop”, or whatever it will be called, will not be on a screen. It will be wherever you want it to be in your field of vision.
And it may not be called up by tapping on a visual icon, but by something you say, or by a particular movement of your hands, or a particular place you look within your field of vision — or by some combination of all three.
This may all seem exotic right now. But there will come a day, for better or worse, when we will be amazed that anybody ever managed to get by without it.