The Extreme Future of IT & Social Media? – Grasp Support – 14′

The Extreme Future of IT & Social Media? – Grasp Support – 14′

In a week where ‘Her Madge’, Queen Elizabeth took to her first Tweet via the Royal Twitter account @BritishMonarchy to comment on her recent visit to the science museum we investigate the endlessly possibilities of Social Media and IT in the not too distant future.

Where are we now? 

We are in a time of unprecedented evolution as an entire global entity. For the most parts social media and IT serves us well, indeed more than ever you can conduct more sharing, more communication, more everything in more places at greater speeds year on year. Your local constabulary will probably be using social media now, your medical history is shared across a huge shared platforms and more than ever the internet has a wealth of knowledge on you, your habits and your movements that is handed off to marketers frequently.

There are also the contentious areas of current IT and networking, such as Wikileaks where all of a sudden question marks are raised over what is the real and what is the perceived privacy and security of the internet itself and what impact IT and the internet can have on us all in a real sense.

And lastly we have our plainly negative aspects of IT and networking. Extremist factions utilising social media and IT to communicate, share propaganda, plot etc. You have the unfortunate rise in cyberbullying, as well as your traditional hacking and viral issues so on, and so on. Its impossible to measure and quantify the effect that modern IT and social media has had on us, but it does raise the inevitable question, what is next? What is the future of IT and networking?

What is Next?

We are just now beginning to see the rise of convenience dating apps like Tinder and we are also starting to see the signs of a shift in online marketing towards more focused and meaningful methods. In a world of over saturated and spammy marketing campaigns, the general consensus is that we are leaning towards more targeted social media based marketing that involves those involved to be a little more creative and purposeful about their approaches on the count of more stringent consumer trends. We are using more and more mobile payment methods to do away with credit cards and utilise touch ID to make secure payments. We are toying with 3D printers to manufacture our household items from the comfort of our own homes. We’re even working hard towards introducing unmanned flying delivery drones to the world to deliver our goods. The list goes on……….

………..Great, so we will have many more romantic liaisons, we will be able to give our money away easier, we can print our own plastic shoes from home, we will have robots dropping packages on our heads from above and we will get a few less spammy marketing campaigns coming our way. So what else?

Well, some clever bods….. and by that I mean extremely clever bods have made possible the quantum processor. A process by which a computing processor will be able to compute one quadrillion processes a second. That, in context means a tiny single quantum bit (qubit) processor packs equal processing stats to Europe’s current data speed holder the “Jugene” super computer that as you might have guessed is many thousands of times larger in size. The only snag is that currently, the little quantum processors require a warehouse full of super-cooling equipment to function properly. Not commercially viable yes, but remember, our current binary computers were once the size of a warehouse and now they can fit in your pocket.

‘Nano’ and DNA chips are exiting the realms of the hypothetical and entering into the world of reality. Advances in nanotechnology could mean that we can do away with silicon and move towards carbon nanotubes to create incredibly small but powerful processors.  DNA microprocessors also offer an exciting, clean, endlessly available type of processor that is both kinder to mother nature and many times smaller than our traditional silicon based processors. As advanced technology laboratories make giant strides forward, we are left to wonder what all this extra data crunching could mean for us on a day to day basis.

In truth it is impossible to say where we will be even just in five years time in the ever evolving world of IT and networking. What is for sure is that it is a sector that seems to expand exponentially year on year and continues to surprise us. To what extent we believe this to be a good thing or a bad thing it is almost guaranteed IT will be just as integrated, if not more into our daily lifestyles. Perhaps one day you will look down to your grandchild, ask them to fetch you a knife and fork from your 3D printer so you can sit down at your digitally interactive kitchen table to simultaneously eat your nano-engineered breakfast whilst instantly conversing with your friends and family who are busy in-transit making outer atmosphere travel from destination to destination in a matter of minutes. After all we are in an age where we are beginning to live within sci-fi.

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