Future Developments - Introduction

ICT is one of, if not the most, quickest moving market in the world. It always has been and will continue to do so for years to come, and is very hard to keep up to date with. Your mobile phone, laptop, tablet whatever that you brought six months ago, is it still the market leader? Is it still the latest most up to date piece of technology? I can almost guarantee that it is not. The latest technology for your everyday user to be in and around the news is the 'smartwatch' a wearable piece of technology that is a phone, MP3 players, and watch (if you didn't guess) all in one. It's a wearable computer.

So why does technology keep striving forward? Well for starters there's the change in needs for end users as well as manufacturers, they want to improve efficiency and reduce costs so they can increase profits, and a machine is the perfect solution, yes it has a huge one of cost but those costs are so often re-paid extremely quickly. But that's not so good for the workman, many of who have have lost their jobs through technology. The reduction in size of simple components such as transistors and resistors have lead to huge breakthroughs and made things a lot more powerful in a smaller area, a prime example being my mobile phone (HTC One X) that has a quad-core processor, something we were only beginning to see in desktop computers 8 years ago, that may seem a long time ago, but you think of the size of my phone and a large desktop computer, there's a huge huge huge difference so personally I think that's just incredible. Other reasons for the continued advance of ICT technologies is that development of flash storage and advances in telecommunications meaning we can transfer and take our data anywhere, without wires!

Some technologies are in there prime, such as GPS Navigation, which again my phone has, and that I must admit I rely on to get me anyway that's further than about 10 miles, i'm useless at navigating! Many people will say we have become too reliant on technology and to a point I agree, but if it's there we may as well make the most of it!

So what next for the world of technology? Many of these things I'm about to mention already exist, but are still so very expensive and contain issues such as brain controlled computing, IRIS scanning, robots! How long will it be before we have robots in our homes, how long will it be before they take over the world?