Is Innovation only limited by our imagination?

I recently sat down with some colleagues to discuss the future of smartphones. One of the key questions was of course, “What would be the perfect smartphone?” This does sound like quite a common question but also a fairly difficult one considering how far mobile technology has come now. What more can we really get from our smartphones today? Have we reached the top of the innovation curve? One colleague humored that the perfect smartphone would be one that can find him when it’s lost (and not the other way around). This sounds like the ramblings of a mad man but I think it’s a reflection of our human imagination and how far we are willing to dream to make something that is already quite good in its own way even better despite the confines of our current reality. Another colleague mused that the perfect smartphone would have a flexible screen. We have all heard and even seen prototypes of bendable paper like screens online. These are a technological marvel but are still a long way from commercialization. However, what amused me even further was my colleagues take on a flexible screen. Not only did he want a screen that bends and folds like paper but also one that can change/morph in size depending on what he was doing or viewing. If he was playing a game he wanted to be able to stretch the screen to a larger more immersive size. If he wanted a normal screen size to carry around for basic telephony he would size/mould it down to a smaller screen. This again sounded like science fiction but is perhaps a broader reflection that users out there are optimistic of such a future even if they cannot see the technology just as yet. This to me could be a sign that we as a society are quite confident in the human capacity to innovate than we have ever been before allowing us to formulate and envison such amusing and even outlandish ideas before they become reality. I would not personally say that we have reached the top of innovation curve just yet. We just have a sea of untapped ideas and wild imaginations from users and not only  R&D boffins that we are yet to mould into a commercial  reality