Dario de Judicibus - The near future (possibly) will 
Honestly I never really believed in the forecasts of analysts on the future more or less near future. The fact is that on the one hand, there are some predictions so obvious as to be totally useless, like the one in the coming years we will see, at the same price, significantly increase the size of memory in the equipment computer and electronic equipment in general, or one for which the fixed and mobile video systems will become increasingly common and affordable for all the other, our economy is so interconnected now global, as in the outdated metaphor butterfly and hurricane climatology used in, any event in some remote region of the planet can easily cause a snowball effect that even in the strongest and richest economies of the globe to nullify any forecast, even if made on the basis of careful analysis by experts recognized in the industry.
I will not then I will make any predictions or statements how will the 2011 or any year to come. What I want instead to talk about is how it might be, or rather, how the technology we already have, might already even now afford to build a future much more futuristic than we think. The point is that real innovation is in fact the desire to innovate. Ideas are not lacking, nor the technology to realize: there are often the first and second years we use already, but without the desire to create something new or innovative ways to use what we have today, " innovation "is just a nice word, nothing more.
If you really want to make a prediction, and not to deny the catalog between those "easy", I feel pretty comfortable in saying that as the processing capacity has expanded rapidly in recent years by experts called for that object computers to any electronic device, be it a television, a car or a dishwasher in the coming years will involve the same pervasive network or Internet. I'm not saying that surfing the net driving the car, which is also a little dangerous, but that will put the network on a continuous basis and any object that has a minimum of " intelligence," including the car or the dishwasher above .
This connection will serve to share data according to specific logic, so you can take advantage of more advanced services that can guide us to always take the best decisions, according to a principle well established in the discipline called " knowledge management "that tells us what's really important is to ensure that the right person can have knowledge at the right time to make the best decision possible.
In practice it comes to exchange large flows consist of small packets of data that continuously update each object automatically, ie without human intervention. Here then is the navigator of the car will be immediately informed of an incident just happened a few miles later it will be some of the machines involved in the incident to automatically provide information on the network, while your dishwasher will decide whether to suspend the program when when you turned on the oven for the roast if you find that the risk of having to suddenly lose power, since he knows that in this case has priority on the laundry room.
This is not science fiction because the technology is already there and all are More and more homes that have their own wireless network, even though today we use it mainly to surf the web on your laptop or mobile phone, but nothing prevents you to connect even the TV, dishwasher, oven and refrigerator. Even communication standards that will allow these various devices to communicate with each other already exist, what is lacking is the logic, or what we want to do in such equipment and why. Innovation is all there, in understanding that a menu in a restaurant should already know if I have serious food allergies and I do not ever propose therefore that a food contains ingredients that can hurt me, while the gate of the house should become aware I'm going out without an umbrella when the forecast rain damage extended throughout the afternoon and, therefore, should warn me.
Nonsense, you say? Certainly a bit 'of rain never hurt anybody, but anaphylactic shock due to food intolerance, yes. There are services and information that can make the difference between life and death, others who may be a mere convenience or save us a bit 'of time.
So, back to the future, I can not tell how it will be, but if I had one wish I would say that I'd like to see the technologies that we already have Used a bit 'better, perhaps to save energy, time and money to protect the environment and spread the culture more, to simplify our lives and allow us to feel closer to our loved ones and friends. In short, a life in which the machines take care of us to give us the opportunity to reassess the importance of human relationships - physical, not virtual ones - that take time and availability, two resources are increasingly difficult to find.
