2046 - a vision of the future
Yesterday marked the last day of the winter-term of my second year in college. After 8 weeks of research, meetings, brainstorming, writing, editing and rendering, our vision of the future is finally done.
2046 will be the year of the MindNet and the MindLink, two utilities that will enhance our daily life in ways unknown to mankind before then:
The MindNet is the natural evolution of the Internet. It all started out a few decades ago as a network for scientists, now (2007), the web is a place to meet interesting people and broaden your knowledge, but only a small part is accessible via conventional means (search engines). This will change, over the next few years we’ll see more and more things being available as an online solution, the concept of PCs will not disappear but it will change radically. Your data isn’t bound to a geographical location (read: your PC’s harddisk) anymore, it will be available everywhere, only to you, unless you decide to share it.
The MindNet is part knowledge base, part search engine, part smart summarizer and part entertainment solution. You don’t have to be able to ask the perfect question to get a perfect answer, no, by means of narrowing it down and automagical content analysis, the MindNet will hook you up with the information you are looking for.
The MindLink is the device that enables you to access the MindNet. Wearable Technology, first introduced at the beginning of this century was the first step towards the MindLink. Human interfaces, seen in Tablet PCs and Nintendo’s Wii combined with the first mind controlled harddisk, which were made available to consumers in 2012 mark an important step towards the change our interaction with computers underwent.
Silicon-based computing hit a roadblock, so to speak. Technology couldn’t get any smaller anymore, so the move towards organic computing, which was based on research and development carried out since the late nineties, was inevitable.
Organic computers were so powerful, that mankind was able to solve many of the environmental issues that emerged during the beginning of the century. With the new processing power, scientists also built artificial brains that helped in the R&D process towards a system that would allow people to download (and upload) data into their brains. Only a few years later, the first non damaging connection to a human brain had been established.
The MindLink enables the user to tap into a vast array of knowledge, not just raw data but processed information that could be used right from the start…
Check out the clip here or here (make sure you enlarge the player’s window by clicking the icon in the upper right corner though).
Kudos to Jero for editing the clip and thanks, Scott, for recording the voice over.