Outline
This paper proposes to take up the matter of emerging trends in technology and concerns itself just with mobile, or wireless technology. From a non-entity a few decades ago, this is now the current trend of human lives and could rightly take pride in having around 2 billion subscribers worldwide, and this rate is increasing exponentially with each passing day.
Speed of transmission, relative ease and convenience of operations, and the ability to rapidly convert and transmit information to any part of the world are the scoring points for mobile. Its combination with the internet has raised the prospects of carrying out virtual business from one’s palms.
While mobile technology has tremendous potential for a wide range of applications, hitherto untapped, which could add to the quality and convenience of human living, it is also necessary that it needs to be sustainable and progressive over a while, and not get relegated just as the wire technology has been made secondary, because of its advent and consolidation in modern living.
Introduction
Future advancements in mobile or wireless technology promise to be a hot subject for the future of the globe, especially about lifestyle and conduct of business.
It is seen that this technology is one of the major innovations and creative developments of the 21st Century and yet has tremendous potential for enhanced benefits to human society in the future.
Description of mobile technology
In the future it is believed that greater use of the following main types of wireless communication networks could be as follows:
- Laptop computers.
- Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s).
- Smartphones with greater competencies and capabilities than conventional wireless mobiles.
- Global positioning system (GPS) devices. (Mobile Technology: What is Mobile Technology and What are the Benefits).
- Payments made through wireless pay points.
Justification
It is believed that such kind of advanced use of technology could be most beneficial to parties in the business. A sales manager could make a sales presentation through his laptop or could use it to send PDF files to customers.
It is thus seen that mobile technology has revolutionized the way business is done in the 21st century and has made quantum leaps in the progression of human lifestyles and business communications. Some two decades ago, nobody dreamt of owning a mobile phone, but today there are nearly “1.4 billion” who required it for their personal and business matters. Mobile technology has surpassed “landlines” in sheer quantum and relatively shorter periods. (Smyth, p.ix).
It is seen that the business world is becoming more competitive and e-commerce and internet trading would play very important roles in the future. This augurs well for mobile technology, now in the third generation since the synergy between the internet and mobile technology has ushered in a powerful and speedy combination of mobile and data services. This could ensure that users are assured of the best of both mobile and data networking servicing, which could even enhance current ways of doing global business.
Specific products that are part of this trend
The latest mobile know-how that connects devices with advanced searching-and-tracking functions. The main intention o this is to make good use of internet competencies in a handheld mobile device.
“Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more details of the building. You can use it when you want to know a car model, an insect name, what kind of food is served at a restaurant and how much, who built a bridge, etc.” (Futuristic Mobile Device with Advanced Search Function).
Conclusion
Thus it could be said that the future of mobile technology has immense potential for both private and business applications. Having made robust contributions in the field of electronic telecommunications, it is now poised to make more crucial offerings for the overall progress, development, and harmonious co-existence of mankind in the universe. However, caution and circumspection also need to be exercised to ensure that the positive attributes of mobile technology are sustainable and harnessable for the cause of mankind, without which later improved technologies could replace it in the future, just as the mobile technology has itself relegated wire technology.
Works Cited
Futuristic Mobile Device with Advanced Search Function. Tuvie: Design of the Future. 2009. Web.
Mobile Technology: What is Mobile Technology and What are the Benefits. Business Links. 2009. Web.
Smyth, Peter. Preface. Mobile and Wireless Communications. 2004. Web.