Hello

First of all im sorry for my english i like the article the concepts about the future are very interesting.
"being digital" switches to "been digital" it's a good quote for the future time, congrats for the note i like tu much

jacob

With all that data floating around peoples' heads it makes me wonder what the social response to this might be. It might be such a breath of fresh air NOT to know everything about something. For people to treasure a bit of ambiguity and mystery about things. To unwire yourself from the world.. the unaugmented revolution!

Just because an idea has become common parlance (in tech circles) doesn't mean you shouldn't cite the originator. That goes double if you are using it to a new audience who may not be familiar with it. I'm sure this is a sin or omission, but... Frog's whuffie has gone way down for me...

Given that we're seeing increasing quality of filtering, data mining, and AI - I think an AI would certainly feature in some way in our assisted interfaces to the physical world. The AI would learn when/where/how we typically choose to absorb/disseminate information; so that our experiences are controlled and useful, rather than an overload. Hard to do with still images.

Consider a "hook-up" mode for clubs, "shopping" mode for clothes, or a "quite" filter for when we wish to pass through the rabble anonymously.

But a great set of ideas regardless.

I enjoyed the article and really like how frog is designing with ubiquitous computing in mind. I think a big part that will change with trends towards ubiquitous computing is the human-computer interaction aspect. Instead of purposefully sitting down in front of a PC, computers will be built into everything around else and interaction will happen naturally. Essentially, computers become invisible tools that blend in to everyday life. I think we're already moving in the direction with all the tablets coming in this year like the iPad, Slate, and Streak.

A great read on future ideas is James Canton's The Extreme Future: Top Trends That Will Reshape the World

Interesting concept. But I'm afraid to imagine that horrible world where data manipulation behind curtains will change the human life.

To allow wearers to take advantage of augmented reality, the U of W design places hundreds of semitransparent LEDs into a thin lens in order to run applications. These apps could range from health monitoring to computer games. One interesting application may be on-the-fly language translation—future generations may have no need to conjugate those foreign verbs!

I think this is going to be absolutely fantastic for dating. Imagine if you could fill out an online profile (like most dating sites these days) with your likes dislikes, personality traits etc.

Then when you go out to a bar / club instead of having to randomly talk to people hoping you'll meet someone you're compatible with you could instantly be shown who you should and shouldn't be compatible with, who's single, who likes the same things you do etc and it could point you to your best possible matches within seconds.

No longer would people have to waste countless nights out on town trying to meet their match and getting constantly bored / frustrated.

This future looks already very dated... and kind of sad.

I can just imagine these people smiling at things that do not exist anywhere else than in their heads...

i like the super imposed vision, but what is different? what is new? for those of use who are working on conceptualize mobile devices and such, this is not something woo and ahh.

I love the visual graphics and interpretations of what will become of 2020. Only the answer that is not being solving and lacking in innovation is the "how" moments will this be realize.

I am not being critically saying the scenario of what Frog is presenting is wrong or that they did their fantastic job of creating a vision/story. I mean you are Frog one of the leading design firms and i greatly appreciate the post.

I just commented because I think this vision should be in our head about how might it work.
I mean, we literally can't have screens like that. could you image from the whopper jr scenario, that guy could run into someone?

or

a more interesting scenario might play out:

how the line up will be if you were on the NJ turnpike for a Big mac and the jersey lady before you goes, oh my god i can't eat this. Return this! (then turns to her husband) did you see that i would need to run 2 hours tomorrow to burn that burger off. Honey we have the girl's dance rehearsals and such, i don't have time for that. --- then you standing behind the lady having to wait an addtional time till she was satisfy with the calorie # of a burger.

Keeping in mind -

a) you are at a McDonald - so yeah everything is high in calorie.
b) why did you order the Big Mac when for the last 20 years advertisement and super size me documentary has been telling you that fast food was not healthy
c) being a jersey/new yorker you are likely to say "who the f#@k cares, lady!"

What a grand idea? Fantastic
Yes, when Pranav has shown us the path to the Sixth Sense I think we are only a few years away from Whuffie or whatever?
Great article - reminds me of Alvin Toffler and his Future Shock back in 70's!

I wonder if you will date with me by my "low whuffies level"

Nonsense.

I hope this happens much sooner than 2020! Great production on the lifestyle shots. I'm a little disappointed in the narrowness of the chosen lifestyles. "Your" future being the operative word. I hope the world is a lot more diverse than depicted in the example images. (e.g. white people buying, eating and casually socializing). The detailed Forbes' article opens with talk on global communication, mobile phones in highschool, handmade products, yet none of those examples seem to have been visualized?

Really true story here, but much augmented reality. I predict that in the future PLAY will be more and more commen to achieve discount, make friends, stimulate cooperatively working together, etc. etc. I have a lot of cases on my blog.

Great stuff though...