Am a big fan of futuristic user interfaces. Here’s one of the most exciting ones from Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler. It’s a big claim that such remarkable technology can be commoditized in 5 years, I wonder how motion can be detected after removing the glove?

There are epic possibilities marrying spatial navigation to the cloud (see Ringo), but the web application layer is not yet prepared for such a transition. It leads me to think of a new call for a whole industry of 3D designers simply re-engineering and visualizing data. A field I that I think has yet to break the dawn of it’s time.

Imagine if classrooms were fitted with such technology, harnessing the power of visual explanation, simulation and collaboration for teachers and students to explore together. What do you think are some killer apps?

I have a feeling that the world in 10 years will be unlike anything we can imagine.

This is the twitter presentation I gave to the folks at NUSEA. 

My intent was not so much to convince, but to share how creativity and imagination has injected so much life and variety into a technology I once thought frivolous. It took me nearly two months to figure the real value in twitter and how to use it effectively, and my aim was to bridge that gap for others, under an hour. As we all know, converts are the greatest evangelists.

Twitter will be destructive. I have witnessed it’s influence in citizen reporting, collective behaviour, and in shifting the power back to the consumer as corporations struggle to keep up. They are afraid of this new viral monster, and until they learn how to manage it they have no choice, but to finally hear consumers out (yay!). It’s long due, and it brings literal meaning to the customer is king.  

And as far as I turn to Google for everything I need to know, I soon discovered the limitation in my results – they are all set in the past. Looking back at the recent crises, it appears that broadcast media typically break the news 15-30 minutes after it is first seen among the twitter chatter.  Who considers what’s newsworthy anyway?  We find value in news that affect us and the people we care about, and that comes through the tweets from our circle. It won’t be long before journalists begin monitoring what’s trending on twitter to report, and I sooner or later, I’m guessing Google will want a piece of the action too. Hello Twoogle!

(Edit) And now we have Google Buzz! Am really surprised at the traction this deck received, and it gave me a chance to present at one of the world mobile congress events in Barcelona! Don’t we all love the power of social media :)