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Future trends in mobile computing will be pursuing the thin client model of computing with services provided through gadgets, video and audio streams. The introduction of the open source concept being launched by google will have profound effects on how we view and use “phones” in future. The programming potential will in the next few years create social innovations through feedback, data mining, device to device interaction. The mobile phone will become a device not just for surfing, texting, talking, and watching videos it will become a mobile sensor interacting with the world and sharing sensor information through the network for interaction with gadgets (applications). For example my phone may not have temperature awareness but a grouping of phones and cars will with this information streamed to the network I could call up the best estimated average of the temperature in my exact location or I could have a map overlay of the temperature in the neighbourhood. I could even map this information with barometric information and start creating predictive weather insights about my exact location. Simple concept but in the hands of imaginative programmers with access to an open source operating system and data (GPS, weather, personal tastes, social groups, time, work hours, transit patterns, etc…) the network will in fact become a nervous system in which we participate as the emotional monitor to a fuzzy logic neural network. This is not very far off in the future it is already starting to take shape with the advent of remote sensors, WiFi, Bluetooth, consumer demand for innovation, flash memory, open source environment, Internet, data mining framework (google), and reduced hardware costs. In a few years James bond will have nothing on us

Ciao, Kristoff Morgan