Science and Industry

Now I do something I most likely should not be doing: speak of my ideas in the spirit of open innovation. So this is an idea that has been bubbling in my head for some time already. Let’s put the pink glasses on and start dreaming… What if…

I see the future being ubiquitous and extremely contextual. There will be smart devices around us to support our daily life. But what’s more important is that these smart devices will know something of their environment, they know where they are.

This feature will allow create potential in several services, not just the location based ones but wide variety like smart devices that sense what you need and offer it. But my idea actually is location based service that could be done with today’s technology.

There’s lot of research done to build political discussion forum to Internet. Actually even know I know it’s trialled in Finland at least. But let’s take this one step further: at this moment you need to be the active partner, looking for the information. And the information might be scattered to several places. But, actually – most political questions have some sort of locational meaning.

Yeap, I think we both see the same thing now: even mapping the current political debate into a map would be interesting. Just a plane old mashing up — nothing new to see here. But I take the next step: we have the contextual device that pushes these messages while you’re in the area. No need to look for the information just stay where you always are and the system will know what’s up with the community around you.

And of course, as I speak about deliberative things, there need to be discussion part also. Or it’s the most important thing. In deliberative framework it’s emphases: to get good decision you need to discuss of it. And now with discussion I mean real discussion, real arguments, and citizens & administration taking part to it. And finally there would be some sort of common understanding of the resolution and reasons why they ended up there.

I call this CODED. It’s just in (and only in) my head and evolving rapidly to different kind of concepts. What would you like to see? Why? Or do I just have an invalid hunch of the future and humans there — as usual?