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
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8yHi Amadou "Chico" Cissoko I totally agree with your take on this and its exciting to see what 2016 and the next few months has in store. With IOT there is alot of promise. But i worry that its just that. Promise. How close the world is to full IOT adoption is still unclear from my point of view especially in the developing world. With IOT I also wonder about SOT. "Security of things" in my own words:) How will we manage the vulnerabilities of such boosted interconnectivity on a societal and business level
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8yCommercial Imagination is Innovation. And that's why I strongly believe that the only thing robotics and artificial intelligence will delay to replace, if ever, is human creativity. As long as there will be human beings with wild imaginations, limited/unlimited resources and a fervent desire not only to create, but to design with a human/customer-centric approach, we will always be amazed by the new and improved products, services, sales, processes... that we will be offered to buy and/or sale. The crazy possibilities offered by the IoT seemed like the beginning of the end of human kind to some people 500 days ago. Today, after so many new products, services, and processes, it still seems like a crazy "future", but in 500 days...