[fr] Je suis à la conférence Lift12 à Genève ces prochains jours. Voici mes notes de sessions.
Live-blogging from Lift12 conference in Geneva. These are my notes and interpretations of Nick Heller’s session — best effort, but might be imprecise or even wrong!
Moore’s Law.
Survey: who has one mobile phone? two? two without an iPhone?
Exponential growth. What do we need for computing?
Singularity: prediction that computing/computers will become more intelligent than humans, which means we cannot predict the future.
What does this mean? The robots are coming!
They have a bit of a bad name (SF movies… scary technological beasts). But they’re not all scary.
iPhone: brought about significant change, and it was only 5 years ago. Switzerland and Singapore have the highest per capita penetration of iPhones.
5 billion mobile phones in the world. 1.2 billion or so people on the mobile web.
More and more mobile internet users start with a search (50%).
Something that wasn’t easily predicted was the growth of applications (apps). 2010 to 2011, 3 times growth for Apple, 10 times for Android.
steph-note: lots of numbers, can’t catch them all
People don’t just interact with their mobile. Desktop, television, tablet…
Defining mobile trends of our time: Social, Local, Commerce.
Tremendous opportunities around aggregating and making sense of data (big data).
Mobile device features: sensors! What differentiates the phone from the desktop computer. steph-note: think “robot”!
The camera acts as eyes, the skin is the touchscreen, speaker = voice, gps = location, cloud = brain.
Where is it going from here? Are we approaching the technological singularity? Nick predicts that we’re going to see real-time translation in the coming years. steph-note: I don’t think so, see how crappy automated written translation still is, after all those years we’ve been saying “it’s going to be here soon”. Oral won’t work before written works, right?
Health diagnostics built directly into the device. steph-note: think Up by Jawbone even if it was a disaster.
Dime-sized silicon chips that detect gasses. Most sales to the military, but how about fitting a chip like that into a mobile device? Detection is limited only by what is in the database. Imagine a phone that would notify you that the pollen count is high where you are.
Democracy. Aiding the electoral process. Nick things we’re very close to getting there.
Automated apps. Why can’t my coffee maker start when I get up, why can’t the bus ticket be automatically purchased as I’m walking towards the stop? It’s about the internet more than the mobile device. => The Internet of Things
Nick would argue that the robots have already arrived, but they’re friendly.
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