Why I am Excited About the Future

As I have said before it seemed that when the internet and the mobile phones came out, the world got smaller. It was a quantum leap in the way we live our lives and how we communicate with each other, not just everyday but across continents. Social Media like Facebook and Twitter mean that friends I have in far flung places such as Hong Kong and Australia are not out of sight. I probably communicate with some of them far more frequently than ones in my home city!

But I have a feeling that this next decade is going to be quite memorable in terms of innovation. We are on the cusp of a revolution both in terms of communication, manufacturing and transport.

So I’ve tried to tie together some of the interesting articles, ideas and products I have seen over the last year or so into tidy headings.

Manufacturing

3D Printers http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/3D%20Printers

Communication

Project Glass http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Google%20Project%20Glass

Google Now http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Google%20Now

Transport

3D Coach http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/3D%20Express%20Coach

Driverless Cars http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Driverless%20Cars

High Speed Rail http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/High%20Speed%20Rail

Skylon http://mrmcgowan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Skylon

And I am definitely going to see what ideas they have for Mission: Impossible 5 as they have been on the money so far!

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Gadgets of the future of Products of today?

What a difference a year makes!

Today I've been watching M:I4 starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt who after being wrongly blamed for the bombing of the Kremlin has to stop a fanatic from using Russian nuclear submarine launch codes to start WWIII!

The film is gadget packed, something that James Bond has seem to have forgotten of late. What I found incredible is that there are 2 gadgets in the movie that up until this year were seen as pure sci-fi.

Up first is the contact lenses which scan for data and give valuable intel to the IMF agents when needed. When I first saw it I did think it was a bit OTT, but isn't this just exactly what Google's Project Glass is?

Then we have the famous masks which first appeared in the 1996 movie, which when I saw that back then it seemed so far out as to be ridiculous. However, in the recent movies they showed how the masks were made... and guess what? It is the same principle as 3D printers!




Truly remarkable!

It reminds me of the story of how the communicator in Star Trek inspired inventors to come up with the cellphone or mobile phone as we call it in the UK.

So I wonder what new things scriptwriters will come up with that will soon become reality.

Though the invisible Aston Martin from Die Another Day may take a while yet!

New product development - Google Project Glass

Google's long awaited sci-fi glasses are on the way. The product is called Project Glass and involves users wearing special digital and wifi glasses which will relay lots of up to date information to the wearer such as translating place names into languages, giving directions, identifying wear certain products are being sold, or even helping you find a good restaurant or hotel.

The glasses may well end up playing music and even offer communication such as mobile phone and internet/email in the future.

It really could be a revolutionary product, which could even be reduced in future to contacts as some people have said they don't want to wear big glasses.

It has the whiff of the movie Minority Report about it, which had specialially targetted adverts playing for consumers as they walked by and their retina was scanned.

The future may well be here!

Read more here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17618495

Future Cruise Ships (2015 - 2020)

Lillypad City: The floating city

The concept city called Lilypad.

The Future: 23rd Century Products and Services

Having watched the new Star Trek movie - very entertaining - it got me thinking of what will the future be like?

What kinds of products and services will people be using in the 23rd Century?

Will we have starships that can warp us to different solar systems?

Will we have a transporter that can teleport us from one place to another? Would make the trip to Australia a lot easier and would put airlines, trains and buses out of business!

The communicator is really what inspired the mobile phone, so perhaps there are other items we have seen in movies or TV that have actually inspired real-life inventions.

So if you can think of something new and original then let me know....