After the smart phone: the Smart Home – How Self Learning Systems Will Make Your House Very Smart

After the smart phone: the Smart Home

By Cees Links, Founder & CEO – GreenPeak Technologies

Do we see the future coming?
We as humans share a few common questions – we all want to know what the future is going to bring us, we would like to know what is coming. But actually this is quite a contradiction, because if we actually knew what the future will bring us, probably the first thing we would want to do is to adjust our plans to be ready for the future. Probably not only that – if we do not like that specific view of the future, we would probably do everything to change it! This is what I was thinking when I was asked for the “next big thing” in consumer technology – as most likely the next big thing is not going to be a technology that we are familiar with like iPhone X or Windows Y.

We only realize what the next thing is going to be when it is actually here, in our hands and in our homes. This does not mean that we cannot see “new things” coming, as in many good forward looking technology articles there are usually quite a lot of good ideas and proposals floating around. When there is a breakthrough, one can usually backtrack to where the original ideas came from and how they evolved and mutated over time to something big and real.

This applies for the computer, as there is actually more or less a straight line from the original room-sized computer mainframe in the middle of the last century to the handheld smart phone of today. Increased computing power and reduced size and energy consumption, mixed with humankind’s innate creativity and knack of developing tools, have resulted in our ability to hold more computing power in our hands that could fit into a large room just a few decades ago!

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