Conceptualising The Future
Posted on August 15th, 2008
While the digitally-empowered of today may find the concept of searching for information in a library full of dead trees rather quaint how will future generations see the way in we navigate the sea of hypertextually linked information today and what will they be doing differently? Envisioning or conceptualising the future has always fascinated me. Some lucky people get to do this as a job and futurologists at Adaptive Path have recently produced some interesting videos (as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series) showcasing a possible future user experience on the web – Aurora (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 There are some extremely cool ideas going on here with four major themes; contextual awareness (understanding and finding patterns in…