Thoughts about the Future of Technology

7.2.2010 von admin.

Today

Today we’re working on computers in a simple and technological driven way. To deal with a document we still create a file on disc (whether it’s on a network server or local doen’t make a difference for me), open an application to manipulate it and save and so on.

However, as an enduser, I don’t care about files, storage location, and application. I think in tasks. My current task is “write a letter”, “create a blog entry”, “fill in a form”. Terms like “File”, “Storage”, “Save” must be vanished out of our heads to get the next step end evolve properly.

What can you do today. Rethink your application design! Is it possible to hide the tech level? Could you manage to save without having the user asked to save (think OneNote)? Could you help him to organize his information in a way that is straight to his or her behavior?

Tomorrow

Each day one opens an “master application” to do some tasks. She or he sees some entries, ordered by last access time with links to creation time. The visible part represents the flow of work, not the physical representation on a disc. The task even has a name and a typical icon to address the focal point of the task (write, calculate, form data). Clicking the entry opens the right application (don’t care which one). So the view into your data is your daily task list. However, one need more information, probably from elder data. Think of all the PDFs and DOCs and whatever polluting your disc. These have to be reside in the cloud. Everything you got from the net pollutes your environment and wastes your time and storage space. Send it back where it comes from. Finding it again is a question a search engine or bookmark manager could handle much better than NTFS.

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