Greenfield: The future - Weaving technology

As we move forward I really do think that the story is very much one of sub 30 Euro smart phone and smart phone equivalents, where there is truly ubiquitous network device that is physically co-located with just about every person in the city. And ís an instrument, is a sensor platform, is a mediator of their identity and their presence and their location, is their avatar facing a wide variety of network services. And I think that that is a reasonable safe guess to make and yet, if history is teaching me anything is that I have been wrong at least as often as I have been right, so I do not necessarily want to stake myself to that. It could be that there is something around the corner that we just have not seen yet. Nevertheless, I think that the immediate near term future is less about true innovation and more about consolidation, and a sense of coming to terms with the technologies that already exist. A sense of really getting past just the mere infatuation with the fact that something is technological possible and learning how to weave it into our existing practices and understandings of our lives and of urban space.