I wrote a couple of posts back that next generation graphical user interfaces were already here. Integration with technology is becoming socially expected. There are implications for the social contract: a) Those that don't integrate will become marginalised, forming a subset of society that live a parallel, less/ non-technologically integrated life; and b) As digital-physical integration reaches singularity, the implications for data privacy and government control & access become scary. Indeed the a posteriority of this is self evident. Like all evolution, the process is perpetually iterative and the beau ideal will remain just out of reach.
Pranav Mistry of MIT demonstrated his work on this integration a few months ago at TED. His goal: to seamlessly mesh the digital and physical. His work goes beyond a simple gesture-screen based interface a la Minority Report:
Sviokla also touches on the implications of this integration at his blog here.
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