SixthSense is Disruptive

SixthSense is a computer system that one wears and it corresponds to movements that the wearer makes.  The SixthSense is described here:  http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

SixthSense detects things in the environment and informs the user of those objects. Additionally, one can use ordinary objects as a screen. Thus, no longer will the wearer need be limited to a computer and mouse to use digital technology.  Rather, the everyday environment becomes the computer field and hands become the mouse.  One will be able to automatically sync information in the environment into the computer by the camera in the wearable computer system.  For example, a page of information from a random book can be scanned into the computer.  Scanners would no longer be necessary. This technology is disruptive to other technologies because the camera will sense what the wearer wants to do, and responds correspondingly.  This technology would make the blind person’s white cane and the TV viewer’s remote control obsolete.  The hard box equipment of many devices would be obsolete.  So not only throw out the remote, toss the TV as well. 

From a social perspective, SixthSense will change the current pattern of individuals sitting at computers, and instead, computers will be seamless in the physical environment.  This will allow individuals to be more socialized with one another.  There will be less people staring into their phones. It is hard for me to image all of what else will arise through this technology. 

Once the SixthSense technology has emerged, I predict it would have about 35 years before being displaced.  I imagine a replacement technology would be something that provides the computer functioning without the camera and little finger tip devices but instead the computer could be placed just beneath the skin on the hands and forehead.  What a world it is going to be!