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Harry Potter y la tecnología del futuro

March 21, 2006 on 3:39 pm | En Análisis |

Harry Potter and the Internet of Things discute el mundo de Harry Potter como guía para la tecnología del mañana:

Essentially, as computer and communications technology become sufficiently advanced as to become invisible, and as the boundaries between the worlds of bits and atoms grow fuzzier, behavior that currently seems magical will become programmable.

De forma similar hablaba Jakob Nielsen en su In the Future, We’ll All Be Harry Potter:

By saying that we’ll one day be like Harry Potter, I don’t mean that we’ll fly around on broomsticks or play three-dimensional ballgames (though virtual reality will let enthusiasts play Quidditch matches). What I do mean is that we’re about to experience a world where spirit inhabits formerly inanimate objects.

Much of the Harry Potter books’ charm comes from the quirky magic objects that surround Harry and his friends. Rather than being solid and static, these objects embody initiative and activity. This is precisely the shift we’ll experience as computational power moves beyond the desktop into everyday objects.