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Wouldn’t it be great to have a sixth sense when you go out shopping, knowing which tissue paper is environment-friendly, immediately getting the reviews of a book you’re flipping through in a bookstore, or more controversially, immediately knowing the background of a person you meet in the street.

How will digital cameras and mobile phones of the future possibly look like?  Or while reading a newspaper, you can get immediate related videos shown to you, without having to have a computer screen with you?

I came across this clip on what some MIT engineers have been working on.  Something right out of  Minority Report.

How we interact with computers and mobile phones and information, and how they all affect our decision making, will definitely evolve, if this technology becomes mainstream.  The real kicker is that to produce this technology, it doesn’t cost more than your average mobile phone!

While this technology may take some time before becoming commercial, the lesson here is that this technology underlines the importance of our work in social media and word-of-mouth.  People will have easier and easier access to information, in their daily decision-making, and we must be able to provide them with the right info.