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Why The Future Phone Won't Be A Phone

Name: Why The Future Phone Won't Be A Phone
Uploaded: 2019-01-03T18:38:42Z
Channel: Matt Britton
Description: The speaker predicts that within approximately 3–10 years traditional smartphones will largely disappear, replaced by voice-first ear-worn devices (e.g…

3 Jan 2019

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The speaker predicts that within approximately 3–10 years traditional smartphones will largely disappear, replaced by voice-first ear-worn devices (e.g., AirPod-like hardware) with visual overlays delivered via contact lenses or smart glasses. He argues that removing visual stimuli makes voice the primary interface and cites rapid technological change as supporting evidence.

I think there's so many implications happening with voice because the visual stimuli goes away. The future of the phone looks like this. They look like AirPods. In three to five years from now, that will be the phone. And I believe contact lenses are going to be the actual screen interface that goes over your eyes and it's actually going to overlay. Obviously people have tablets and things like that, but I actually think the phone isn't going to exist and, and people could look at me like I'm crazy. But if I told you 10 years ago that I could talk to somebody in Uganda in high def for free right now by pushing a button, you'd say I was crazy. So the technological innovation and the rate of change is only gonna actually accelerate. And I don't think the phone is gonna be here in 10 years from now. It's gonna be voice based. People aren't gonna be typing anymore. And when you wanna see an image overlay, there's gonna be contact lenses that actually allow you to do so, or glasses or whatever it may be.