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12/9/2013

 
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According to the IT firm Logicalis, the average UK teenager owns six digital devices and posts pictures and information online.

With most using mobile gadgets, it may not be long before youngsters expect always-on connectivity as a right, the poll says. Some 28% of the 1,004 13- to 17-year-olds questioned feel ICT is key to their future career.

The poll showed that 84% of the teenagers polled own a smartphone, 78% a laptop and 51% a tablet device. The top digital devices are:

    Smartphone

    Television

    Laptop

    Games console

    MP3/iPod

    Digital camera

But what of the future? Maybe some of the newly emerging workforce can expect a job in IT, but that's now where production comes from. Some of the teenagers questioned will need to work with other parts of their body besides their fingers and brain. Will we have an even more highly segregated society between physical and office workers?

This is how I see the future in the first draft of a book I wrote last year called The Golden Casket. It's set in 2027 and gives the background of Tallulah McBride, whose diary entries feature at the beginning of each of the Higher Ground series. Note: The Handie is the digital device.


The secretary handed her a note. Tallulah grasped it with a shaking hand.

"I want you to gather information on these men," Badia said. "They're on the list to attend the same function as Prince Abjan. Print out everything you find."

At last. This task would interest her more than making coffee. Tallulah hurried to her desk and concentrated on her screen, fingers flashing over the keyboard, clicking on appropriate articles and saving them to file.

The outer door slid open. Tallulah glanced over. The prince strode in. Two attendants glanced around the room, nodded to Badia and withdrew.

Following the other woman's movements, Tallulah stood and bowed. Her head remained low until the swish of the door told her the prince had entered his office. She focused on her task again. The hours passed by. A deep voice inside the computer announced lunch break and she glanced over at Badia, who studied her Handie.

"You can take your break in the staff room on the lower floor if you like. Or you may prefer to wander around outside."

"The staff room sounds good," Tallulah said. "Are you--?

"Yes. I'll come along with you." Badia stood, covering her Handie with the sleeve of her dress. Swishing her hair back, she led the way to their rest room and picked up her satchel.


What do you predict for our future?

andrew ben ugodo
12/8/2013 07:39:43 pm

Most youngstes like me cant do a day with out laptop and smartphones. It just makes life easy. Is going to be good if we can try something with out using our fingers.

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Francene Stanley link
12/8/2013 09:51:35 pm

I understand what you mean, Andrew. The way civilization works is changing faster and faster.

Sophie Bowns link
12/8/2013 08:05:25 pm

Laptops do make life so much easier and the are ideal for university :)

Francene Stanley link
12/8/2013 09:52:45 pm

I'm glad you embrace technology, whilst keeping a grip on normal life. Balance is the key.

Rick Bylina
12/8/2013 09:54:04 pm

Despite appearances to the contrary, I have breaks now and again where I don't access my electronic devices. They will continue to be more intrusive in our lives, making the necessity for faster and quicker communication seem necessary, which it is not. I have a television (one for the whole household), a laptop, a Kindle, and a Smart Phone (no landline). Wifey has a dumb phone, a GPS in the car, and an unused digital camera. If they include televisions as electronic devices, why not clocks? I guess that makes me below average.

By the way, you gave me an inadvertent chuckle. No one in 2026 is going to hand a secretary (assistant) a note. It will be an online message. And she will not print out anything. She will download into a mini-file all the information she found. Even making coffee in an office environment will be more automated. Where I work, the coffee is loaded once a week by a service employee. You want a cup, you go get a cup. In this example, stretch the science, you swallow a coffee pill that simulates drinking a cup with five second releases of the taste, smell, and swallow reflex of drinking coffee for 42 minutes. :-)

Francene Stanley link
12/8/2013 10:01:09 pm

Chuckle back, Rick. The draft needs more thought, that's for sure. But surely the pleasure in drinking coffee comes from the whole experience of feel, sight, and smell as well as taste. I wouldn't bother with a coffee pill. ;-)


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    Born in Australia, I moved to Britain half way through my long life.

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