Couple weeks back, we looked at the bright future of the Marathi
cinema in coming years and how it’s attracting talent at the national level,
and scaling new heights at the Box Office (Did Natsamrat made the illusive INR 50 CRs at the BO?), today we’ll take a sneak peek at the future of technology. And this is not based on
any promos ;) or through any media channels, but probably the so called ‘Brain
child’ of the ‘First Person Singular’ J. And
while these thoughts were hovering for last year+, last mornings article
about Zinnia blossoming in the space and related references in the article (newspaper) must
have triggered and compelled me to actually write about those techy ;) thoughts
in my mind. And Ohh NO!! These are not yet patented yet J L
Personal Drones:
So in 5-8 years from now, most of the cell phones will have
multiple accessories or will be connected with lots of wearable’s like the
hi-tech goggles (Google Glass), clothes, health monitoring gadgets etc. But most
cell phones would also have a key accessory in the form of a personalized tiny drone.
Drones will be connected with cell phones, hi-tech goggles etc. and primarily
function as a remote camera for the phone. And later those will evolve to
become persona pets of various shapes, size and colors with very peculiar characteristics.
Essentially will be a combination of a low-end robot and minuscule drone. How
about having a drone mimicking a Dalmatian wagging its tail or a white Siamese
cat yawning in your lap, jumping around you, playing with you and you don’t have
to bother about feeding, cleaning it! Hmmm but wait, can’t skip the charging though
L till it becomes so intelligent to start charging itself.
GloCal Tourism:
While London boasts about it's Tube and it’s undoubtedly one of
the best although busiest public transport services in the world, I actually had
to ‘Mind the Gaps J with respect to the
tube Service’, especially during the days of strike called by the tube workers,
and believe me I came across that situation multiple times during the couple
years I was staying in London making me change my commute plans at several occasions. Also I was
fortunate to visit Paris just a few months prior to the coward attacks in early
2015. A very close friend of mine was in Paris while it was under attack, as he
was visiting it unfortunately just for those 2 days. So even though I love to
travel and visit places, understand different cultures, food (Veg – yes lots
you can explore J) and know more about the people characteristics
in that area, somehow always get constrained due to time, ever increasing
costs, coordination hassles and also the anxiety about everything like travel
tickets, hotel bookings, weather, local disruptions at the intended places of
travel etc.
I have been thinking over it for last 1+ year and visualizing couple
of new lines of business. One of those and at the extreme end of the spectrum,
someone like a Disney or alike, can make huge investments, to build large theme
parks wherein places across the world are recreated and you can touch and feel small
replicas of Taj Mahal, Pyramids of
Egypt, Leaning tower of Pisa along with respective natural habitats, the climate, the
food and people from those areas. So if you buy a ‘hoppers pass’ for 5 days in a
summer vacation, you can visit 10-12 different places at the theme park
spending probably half a day at Taj Mahal enjoying the Chats and Jalebi and
remaining half day in Venice listening to the ‘Venetian Gondola Songs’ amidst
bunch of roses, glass of Champagne and cheese, or or even better in snow peaked
Alps in the winter gears rented by you for those 3-4 hours.
Interesting??
While above requires a mammoth of an investment and also
could be a bit/lot expensive and time consuming (still? – YES!!) affair as a tourist, for
the T20/ ‘Appletic’ generation (I just coined it :-)), the more affordable and quicker
option would be the multiplexes devoted to tourism. There will be shows on
chopper ride at Grand Canyons, or snorkeling in the blue lagoons and carol islands for the vibrant
and colorful under water life in Pacific and Indian Ocean. Well it will be brought to you most likely through the
Imax shows or the Virtual Reality (VR) shows with bunch of Dimensions (6Ds / 7Ds…J). I
mean with VR you may even get to experience the space travel and near
weightlessness moments. 'Sony Studios' / 'Travel Channel' - are you reading / listening / working on this already? :-) And while getting out of the multiplex you can keep on
collecting the fridge magnets for the destinations you haven’t visited and
probably not visiting in near future, convenient? huhhh !!!
And I don't intend to say that the actual tourism will be impacted, these could be just the new 'ways' to visit places.
Conglomerates? Those are too Small and will be a passe– The time
is for Nebulous Organizations ruling the world:
The last one is pretty interesting, and probably really vague - too commercial and distant even as a concept! But… I’m visualizing Alphabet
(Google parent organization) as one organization
ruling the world in next 10-15 years – Be it the largest internet service
provider, home automation, automobiles to the electronic devices and OSs and
more importantly custodians to the gigantic data about every single person
(well almost!) right from, which tooth paste s/he uses to which seat in the
flight s/he prefers to how much the person is spending every day on the cup of
coffee at nearby Starbucks or Costa. Hmmmm, while many will resonate with some of
these thoughts, I’d further imagine if Alphabet owns 1) a large financial
organization (typically Credit Card arm) and 2) Mobile service Provider, they
will completely rule the world, and yes in every sense. Sounds scary but the
amount of data they already have about each of us, it’s already enough scary.
And I could see there will be more means of capitalizing on that, to the extent
that Alphabet would even defunct Credit Card as a concept and would replace that
in the SIM card in the mobile where the instrument, the OS, and the network service (internet
based) provided by them and the instrument can even come for free, at the cost
of …. You know it!!! Sounds like a story-line of any quintessential Hollywood
flick, where Americans are utterly paranoid of these things and always want to
fight (obviously to win!! J) against
an evil super power. But Alphabet appears to be damn capable of ruling at
least 15-20% of the World economy in next couple of decades, and obviously to grow
even further.
Was that too heavy, head spinning?…I guess so J. Let’s come back to reality, its already 6th
week of 2016 and we haven’t even acted on the usual resolution we make at every
year-end. Grab your sport shoes, tracks and hit the road / gym to sweat it out
and get into that lean look you have been wanting to have, and for the healthy you. ‘Just
Do It because Impossible Is Nothing’ –
Show these are not just the tag lines but you actually mean it J
Have
a great week ahead!
