Vision 2019

Google is posting a series in itz blog about the visions for 2019 shared by many of its experts. Quite interesting stuff. Something I liked about Marissa Mayer's vision is that of a search-powered device that would have a microphone on it. It would listen to conversations and search for relevant facts in the background. say you go fishing and talk about a specific kind of fish or something, the complete facts about this fish is ready for you. The recent post is by Andy Rubin on the future of mobile. he talks about a scenario where you drive past a shop and look at a puppy, the compass and GPS would determine what you are looking at and get details about the price of the puppy and the food that needs to be bought for it etc. This looks like stripped down version of Jini technology which pushed for an impromptu community, where every device talks to every other device and gets their job done. For eg, a washing machine in the Jini community would scan your shirt tag and talk to the manufacturer to download instructions for washing it.