Should we worry about books, or should we simply take the web in hand (with the help of mobile tech) and continue to develop web content to its fullest potential?

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 un-tethered us from wires and cables. The tin can and string became a fable. Over four billion people on Earth connected 24/7, talking while walking, surrounded by a wireless umbrella. Humans joined a global communications web.

Feature phones and smart-phones added data to voice. The mobile Internet emerged. Information, once hidden to billions, became accessible. A world that never existed to many magically appeared on tiny screens—text, pictures, graphics.

For some, their mobile phones spewed forth music from lands once distant, now local. Camera phones extended vision. GPS and location-based tools re-oriented the carbon footprint, other humans a moving dot on a luminescent screen.

Mobility ceased to exist in a world where everyone was connected. Home, like work, like the park, like the street merged. Carbon footprints moved but mobile users’ minds were static. Like the TV series “Lost,” the island vanished and the ocean’s horizon disappeared.

The Future?

A world where voice and data are one and new, personalized mobile devices extend learning, enhance commerce, entertain.

The island stays hidden but the horizon reappears.

Here is a video with interviews of the team as well as international experts talking about how Mocom2020 and key trends for the future of mobile media.

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We are overwhelmed with the positive feedback and thousand of views of our Video: “The Future of Mobile”.

Thus we want to announce the publication of the book “Mobile Future @mocom2020 – A collaborative vision of the future of Mobile Media and Communication” which we will share with you online as well. Until we publish the whole book including all articles from Mocom2020.com we provide the index and the first few pages already today.

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Wikipedia: Hans Moravec (born November 30, 1948 in Austria) is a adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene. Other ROI techniques exist, including the patents of Sherman de Forest (U.S.), and the machine vision / image processing articles by Sobel. His last academic publication was in 2003.