Media Immersive

Fast forward five years from now...

I picture the media in the next five years to not be dramatically different. However, change is inevitable. I picture cellular phones to be more advanced than now. Everyone will be on a 4G network. People will be able to do everyday tasks right in the palm of their hand. They will be able to pay for things with their phone, use it as a ticket, be almost a full working computer, with all touch screen of course. In the future, I can imagine it almost resembling a mini I pad. Everything you need in one device is something I think distributors will strive for. Movies will be almost primarily in 3D. Television will be on its way to being almost completely 3D.

Now fast forward fifteen years...

I see the world now almost fully immersed in communication devices. In all our technological advances, a lot of people will have only one device that does everything for them. This could not even be considered a phone anymore. This could just be a sort of human remote control, a device used to to virtually everything, right in the palm of your hand. This will be in attempts to try to connect to the world, but will make it all the more distant. Face book will still exist, maybe something better will come along. all the same, we will all be traceable from anywhere in the world, if not already. Television will not be obsolete by any means, just a mesh of movies mixing with television. There will be significant progress, to be sure. Most likely holograms. No time travel, by any means, but a significant leap non the less. I think were on a roll with advancements and has no intention of slowing down.

Now, come with me fifty years from now...

Fifty years from now, I don't believe we will have flying cars, time travel, or even teleportation. I do believe, however, that we will have technologies beyond what I can probably wrap my head around now. I think that everything will be 3D or touch screen, if not a combination of then both. Color television, and 2D are just feats of the past now. The three-dimentional world will be the next to perfect. Like Blue ray will replace DVD and digital format of songs were once CD and tapes, everything will be lost in a digital sea. Print will be less and less, suffering, but will never disappear altogether. Things will just come faster, cheaper and will be easier to obtain. Quantity will probably be valued over quantity.


Overall, I think progress is a constant uphill battle. There is always a part of humanity that wants to grow and advance technologically and mentally, but there is that human side of us that wants to keep tradition and human contact. We strive on both of them. I think this slows us down a bit in terms of how fast we want to grow technologically, but not by much. We will always want to advance, that is our nature. Our nature is also to rebel, to keep the dignity of being a human and by not playing God too much.