Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Google Phone?
This from Engadget. Venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov says Google has a team of about 100 people working on the Google Phone. The photo might be simply a represenation of what the user interface would resemble. That isn't the point. The point is that it looks like a buddy list. And it is possible that the buddy list becomes the hub of communications activity in many, perhaps most situations. All of which illustrates the importance of instant messaging as a metaphor for where a good chunk of communications is going. Which is to say, it works better when the people you want to communicate with can signal that they are available, right now.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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