After we have published the Video “The Future of Mobile – Mocom2020″ it was translated by our community into chinese and french within a few weeks. Now we want to offer our video to more people in different languages. DotSub is the best platform for translations and subtitles of videos online – so that’s why [...]
MOCOM 2020 – Future Vision Video
Today Christian Magel and Monty Metzger have presented the Video of key results of the MOCOM 2020 project at Next’09. Watch the Video here.
Evolution of Computer Capacity and Costs
Artificial intelligence pioneer Hans Moravec made an interesting slide showing the evolution of computer power and cost, and the trajectory toward a thinking machine comparable to a human brain. “Evolution of Computer Power/Cost”.
Wikipedia: Hans Moravec (born November 30, 1948 in Austria) is a adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon [...]
Who will bring out the first eNewspaper Reader for free?
This week Murdoch’s News Corp. annouced that they are developing a device that would be used to read newspaper content on a large screen. Murdoch says “its time consumers started paying to read Web content.”
Mobile technology could save the ailing newspaper industry, according to Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp. and one of the [...]
Mobile Phones and Mobility in a Wireless World
Since Motorola released the first cell phone in the early 1980’s, mobile users, researchers, marketers, advertisers and visionaries extolled the value of mobility in a wireless world.
Mobile user location and distance to other users vanished. More important, psychological distance between users became perceptual—only two inches. “Long distance” morphed to no distance.
Mobile phones and mobile devices [...]
Is Mobile the next disruptive technology?
Not too long ago, the mobile industry was dominated by discussions about chipsets and back-end carrier infrastructure. Now, the conversation has turned to streaming video and iPhone apps – and there’s a whole cast of new characters that have a seat at the table, from Hollywood studios to web giants like Yahoo and Google. [...]
Making of Mobile Future 2020
Mocom2020 is a collaborative think tank about the future of mobile media. After we have published the website mocom2020.com, the future vision video and the book, we now want to share some background information and details with you.
Here is the making of…
Sensorconomy
So far here are the only places I’ve found an official mention of the “sensorconomy”. I’d like to gather more information on this.
2011 build in sensors, like GPS, temperature, humidity, light- or compass-chips, create new mobile ecosystems – the sensorconomy.
http://www.slideshare.net/montymetzger/mobile-future-2020
The rise of the “sensorconomy” – a new economy and ecosystem driven by the Internet of [...]
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Mobile World Congress 2013
Barcelona is preparing for the next Mobile World Congress starting February 25, 2013.
This year the topic is called “The New Mobile Horizon”:
The mobile ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed, with endless innovation and new applications of mobile technology. From contactless payments and augmented reality to embedded devices and connected cities – mobile technology is [...]
Making of Mobile Future 2020
Mocom2020 is a collaborative think tank about the future of mobile media. After we have published the website mocom2020.com, the future vision video and the book, we now want to share some background information and details with you.
Here is the making of…
Sensorconomy
So far here are the only places I’ve found an official mention of the “sensorconomy”. I’d like to gather more information on this.
2011 build in sensors, like GPS, temperature, humidity, light- or compass-chips, create new mobile ecosystems – the sensorconomy.
http://www.slideshare.net/montymetzger/mobile-future-2020
The rise of the “sensorconomy” – a new economy and ecosystem driven by the Internet of [...]
Will books drop dead when the web becomes easier to hold?
According to recent news, the future of books and ebooks will be vook-like, and media tablets will turn books into multimedia, web-linked, social-networking experiences. It all sounds very new, but isn’t this already how people develop content for the web?
Should we worry about books, or should we simply take the web in hand (with the [...]
Mobile Tech: Do we need to learn anything in advance anymore?
If we can learn anything at a moment’s notice, wherever we are, while in possession of mobile tech (such as a smartphone), is there any real need to learn something now for future application? That is, with a smartphone, don’t each of us already possess more knowledge than could be expected from any one person, [...]
Mobile Phones and Mobility in a Wireless World
Since Motorola released the first cell phone in the early 1980’s, mobile users, researchers, marketers, advertisers and visionaries extolled the value of mobility in a wireless world.
Mobile user location and distance to other users vanished. More important, psychological distance between users became perceptual—only two inches. “Long distance” morphed to no distance.
Mobile phones and mobile devices [...]
Video: Making of Mocom2020
Mocom2020 is a collaborative think tank about the future of mobile media. After we have published the website mocom2020.com, the future vision video and the book, we now want to share some background information and details with you.
Here is a video with interviews of the team as well as international experts talking about how [...]
Help us translate our Mobile Vision Video
After we have published the Video “The Future of Mobile – Mocom2020″ it was translated by our community into chinese and french within a few weeks. Now we want to offer our video to more people in different languages. DotSub is the best platform for translations and subtitles of videos online – so that’s why [...]
20 Questions for Mocom 2020
We need your help!
Please have a look at these 20 questions about the future of Mobile Media and Communication. We reflect our thesis and trends presented in our Future Vision Video and want to get your thoughts and feedback.
The questionaire will just take you a few minutes, but for us it will be big help.
If [...]
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- biz_tv: books and web content will co-exist. I will never want to live without books, it’s a physical think you...
- biz_tv: Books and web content will co-exist. I for my part cannot imagine a life without books. It’s a physical...
- Alan Vickery: I believe that no matter what advances happen in technology, the printed book will remain ubiquitous....
- diego: if you want traslate in italian , i can try it but my english is intermediate. i hope day by day to...
- Chandra Wijaya: I havent seen until now any enewspaper reader for free. Maybe in another 10 years? I dont think if it...