Future is coming.......!!!!!!

In wired mag's august issue, Derek Powazek, cofounder of JPG magazine, defines current generation as Generation M. "M for multitask: We listen to music while surfing the Web and having four IM conversations. M for mashup, my favorite example of multitask culture. Finally, M for media, with emphasis on the me. There is no corner of our lives left undocumented, no niche topic left unexplored." I would like to add one more M to this list, M for mobile. In a survey, carried out by wired mag,27% of 608 wired readers polled that cell phone is the device in their arsenal they arn't using to its full potential. An article on "Six emerging technologies that will change the world of communications" by David Haskin of Techweb, suggests that it's a good time to be mobile. In 2005, 825 million mobile phones were shipped according to IDC(International Data Corporation). Gartner estimates Mobile Phone Sales Will Exceed One Billion in 2009. Mobile phone is a device which has a great impact on the way we communicate today and with the applications that are alreday available such as Google Maps, Google search, Scanbuy shopper, Scanbuy Media and many more available and some emerging applications intertwined with the WI-FI, its gonna take a revolutionary change.

In his article, David Haskin talks about Six technologies that will change the world of communication by letting mobile users stay online and in touch.
These are the six technologies in brief:

1)Pay by phone
2)Commanding Presence
3)Internet Everywhere
4)Ubiquitous Media
5)Easier Health monitoring
6)Safety

You can read this interesting article here. This article seems like a document of history of future, Future... thats coming....

P.S. My roommate Shabbir Ahmed,who works for Scanbuy provided useful information on futuristic applications of mobile phones.