Science Nonfiction Summary
In his Article "Science Nonfiction" Niv Lilien expresses the fact that in the future, technology will have a massive role in our daily life style. He emphasizes that a future that revolves exclusively around technology is not far away .Throughout the article, he verifies his assumptions by interviewing technology leaders and specialists who share the same mindset as he does.
The writer begins with an imaginary story which describes how he believes our future will look like in 40 years. The protagonist of this story is a man five decades ahead of time who lives a total technology lifestyle. The story shows how different types of applications and software's accompany him and affect his life. From the time he is about to wake up, and through
the rest of the day they read his thoughts, and are easily maneuvered by the person's needs and wills in order to enhance his productivity.
At this stage of time technology is not as advanced as described in the story. According to experts, innovators and inventors from around the world, the technology that enables interactive work style already exists today in preliminary stages. They predict that the changes in technology will highly affect the way we work and collaborate in the future.
Furthermore, the author explains about the development of the future technology such as the Meta-flex desk. The meta-flex is a unique material that can "bend" light waves to go around it and theoretically enables objects wrapped in it to be invisible. Another technology that has been addressed is the information wristband, which connects all types of information equipment possessed by a person via one contact form. Other startups are mentioned as well, seeking to create different interface technologies. These technologies will eventually turn our expressions into commands, thoughts into reality and even predict our future actions and save us time by doing the work automatically on their own.
The writer concludes by referencing three of the top hi-tech industry leaders. These experts believe that in the future, it will be very hard to distinguish between real and virtual interactions. In order to provide the home viewer an experience that truly resembles actually being present at a show or game, technologies such as HD cameras, filming from multiple angles and using multi-dimensional support are being used. Mr. Lilien ends with a positive attitude towards the fact that innovations, and new ideas will forever accompany the human nature, therefore technology will continue to evolve in the future years.
The writer begins with an imaginary story which describes how he believes our future will look like in 40 years. The protagonist of this story is a man five decades ahead of time who lives a total technology lifestyle. The story shows how different types of applications and software's accompany him and affect his life. From the time he is about to wake up, and through
the rest of the day they read his thoughts, and are easily maneuvered by the person's needs and wills in order to enhance his productivity.
At this stage of time technology is not as advanced as described in the story. According to experts, innovators and inventors from around the world, the technology that enables interactive work style already exists today in preliminary stages. They predict that the changes in technology will highly affect the way we work and collaborate in the future.
Furthermore, the author explains about the development of the future technology such as the Meta-flex desk. The meta-flex is a unique material that can "bend" light waves to go around it and theoretically enables objects wrapped in it to be invisible. Another technology that has been addressed is the information wristband, which connects all types of information equipment possessed by a person via one contact form. Other startups are mentioned as well, seeking to create different interface technologies. These technologies will eventually turn our expressions into commands, thoughts into reality and even predict our future actions and save us time by doing the work automatically on their own.
The writer concludes by referencing three of the top hi-tech industry leaders. These experts believe that in the future, it will be very hard to distinguish between real and virtual interactions. In order to provide the home viewer an experience that truly resembles actually being present at a show or game, technologies such as HD cameras, filming from multiple angles and using multi-dimensional support are being used. Mr. Lilien ends with a positive attitude towards the fact that innovations, and new ideas will forever accompany the human nature, therefore technology will continue to evolve in the future years.