You have got to watch this, it is amazing!!!
A TED video on the physical world interacting with the world of digital data. No longer will we need desktop computes or laptops. No longer will we have to sit for hours in front of a machine interacting with a machine (computer). We can get information while interacting with our physical world.
Pranav Mistry, an MIT graduate student has created a device called the SixthSense that uses our physical gestures and interactions with real-world objects and integrates/combines them with data (digital information) for ‘just in time” knowledge building.
He hopes that this will solve the digital divide. All equipment needed is extremely cheap and the software is open source. You only need a wireless connection to the internet.
Near the end of the video he shows how his device makes working with digital data the same as working with information in a physical form (on paper)
I love it. I can hardly wait until it becomes the norm.
We will still need digital literacy, like what is a pixel, but the confinements of desktop and laptop will no longer exist.
