Tap on, Tap off
The days of having to walk across the living room to turn off a lamp are over. Tap your phone and it’s done. So is listening to your favorite song, turning on the fireplace, choosing the perfect bike route, and even feeding the dog.
The smartphone does it all —connects to friends and commercial enterprises through texts, emails and social platforms. It plays your music, helps you get around anywhere in the world, and, on occasion, it makes phone calls. Fundamentally, it brings the Internet of things (IoT) to life.
But look down at your phone and of the 100+ apps you’ve downloaded, how many do you really use? If your phone was wiped, how many of those would you go through the trouble of manually downloading again?
And now we have the IoT—new connections to your house, to your car, even your medicine cabinet. It will be at its most useful when it leverages the data from many of these every day, mundane interactions; leveraging those patterns to make decisions and communicate with its connected family. That data can inform all kinds of interactions, with you, and with each other. And that ecosystem of interactions will operate from your voice and your fingertips.
The future is about touch and voice—an evolution of the way we have all interacted for thousands of years with one another. The smartphone has made everything more personal, extending your reach and bringing all the knowledge in the world to the palm of your hand. And now, with IoT, you have almost the entire physical world at your hands, too.
Business Agility, Culture, and Leadership Coach | Organizational and Digital Transformation | Innovation | Change Agent
7 年Great post, Steve Ellis. Yes, we literally have the world in the palm of our hands...where our fingers swiftly exercise their voice and their vote.
Vice President Senior Business Relationship Manager Deepening
7 年So proud to work along side like minded individuals whom care passionately about the success of our business clients. Receiving a letter from a client elaborating on how we helped her business succeed financially is very humbling.
Vice President Senior Business Relationship Manager Deepening
7 年Very exciting times indeed. With time being the new currency, voice activated process eliminates manual process and is more efficient. This would re-open up the opportunities for those people who no longer could function physically.
Moving data to action in health care
7 年Not sure I grasp the significance of the photo attached to this post. "Yo, Alexa, do my 10 miles on the bike for me."
Senior Vice President, Senior Architect Leader at Bank of America
7 年Not quite all.. Laundry, cooking, dishes, grocery shopping, cleaning, yard work, etc. etc. (useful things), but granted it has consolidated electronic functions we already had into a single smaller device.