Future Development #4 - Apps

Applications. Or Apps for short. Most people now own and regularly use apps on their smartphone or tablet, for browsing social networking, communications, gaming and more useful things like such as turning our phones into torches. Apps are recently new, but have grown rapidly and continue to do so, so who knows where they can go, how long will it be before we can use our phone to put the kettle on for when we walk in the door, we can already control computers and TV's so why does it have to stop there?

There are thousands of apps out there, and it is now easier than ever to join in and develop your own using free programming applications. The future of these apps grows with the development of newer technologies like those previously describe on this blog, who knows what we'll be able to do by pressing some buttons in the next few years. This is in terms of both business in manufacturing goods and providing a service as well as consumers. 

The main issue is though, have we become too reliant on technology and our apps? What happens when things break down, a satellite fails?