Smartphones and the Great Digital Divide

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Chapter 9

Emerging Trends and Technologies

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INTRODUCTION

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Personal Software-as-a-Service

Personal SaaS - delivery model for personal productivity software in which you pay for software on a pay-per-use basis instead of buying the software outright

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Push, Not Pull, Technologies and Personalization

Push technology – environment in which businesses come to you with information, services, and product offerings based on your profile

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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

  • Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) – allows you to send voice communications over the Internet and avoid the toll charges that you would normally receive from your long distance carrier
  • Catching on quickly in the business world
  • A little slower in the personal world
  • Not everyone has high-speed in-home Internet access

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Web 3.0

  • Web 3.0 – third generation of the Web focused on semantics
  • Semantics – ability of Web technologies to interpret and understand human-generated content
  • Search engines, for example, will be much better at filtering results

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Automatic Speech Recognition

  • Automatic speech recognition (ASR) – not only captures spoken words but also distinguishes word groupings to form sentences
  • Becoming more a reality everyday
  • Commercial systems cost less than $100

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Virtual Reality

  • Virtual reality – three-dimensional computer simulation in which you actively and physically participate
  • Uses 3 unique devices
  • Glove
  • Headset
  • Walker

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Cave Automatic Virtual Environment

  • Cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE) – special 3-D virtual reality room that can display images of people and objects in other CAVEs

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Biometrics

  • Biometrics – the use of physiological characteristics – fingerprint, iris, voice sound, and even breath – to provide identification
  • That’s the narrow definition
  • Can also create custom-fitting clothes using biometrics

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Other Biometric Devices

  • Biochip – chip that can perform physiological functions
  • Implant chip – microchip implanted into the human body that stores information about you for tracking (GPS)
  • Family of 4 in Florida already have them
  • Facial recognition software – provides identification by evaluating facial characteristics

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THE WIRELESS ARENA

  • Provides tremendous mobility
  • Will dramatically change everything
  • Bluetooth – short-range communication of about 30 feet
  • WiFi – longer-range communication of up to about several miles
  • Near Field Communication – wireless technology for mainly mobile phones

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RFID

RFID (radio frequency identification) – uses a chip in a tag or label to store information, and information is transmitted from, or written to, the tag or label when the chip is exposed to the correct frequency of radio waves

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MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS

  • The necessity of technology
  • Closing the great digital divide
  • Technology for the betterment of society
  • Exchanging privacy for convenience
  • Ethics, ethics, ethics