Today @Nokia_Connects celebrated our 10,000th follower *big cheer*. In addition to thanking all of our followers old and new (THANK YOU!), we wanted to have a bit of fun by trying to foresee what’s in store for mobiles in the future… deep into the future… 7,989 years into the future to be exact. Those of you who are good at math will know what year that is, and those of you who are not good at math but read the title (or are good at math and read the title) will know too.
Anyway, we asked what you think mobile phones will be like in the future. We had all kinds of futuristic ideas and speculations, things like teleportation, phones that are fully integrated with the human body and even crazier theories that there wouldn’t even be phones that far into the future. Just imagine!
From all of your suggestions, here are our favourites:
#1. Telepathy
via happyschoolsblog
“Telepathy is the induction of mental states from one mind to another”. To us this seems like the perfect mobile phone. Of course we know telepathy isn’t possible, but perhaps in the distant future with a tiny neural implant this could be possible. Imagine just thinking ‘oh I need to phone my friend to say I am going to be late for dinner’ and before you know it her voice pops into your head saying ‘why are you going to be late?’ genius. Actually we’re kind of going off the idea here…
Loads of you suggested this or a version of it so thanks to you all! 
#2. Headsets and Micro-projectors
This suggestion is a really cool one, it brings lots of the things we can do with mobile technology singularly and in some cases together, all together with a few added extras. The theory is that you have a device like a headset on your head that acts as a phone, headset and screen. If you are browsing the web, a micro-projector plays a holographic display of the information in front of you. A similar suggestion was that we could have a small ear piece for sound and a contact lens or lenses over our eye(s) for images. These both follow the same suit of us not having to hold something in our palms and look down at a screen – is this really something we want to stamp out in the future?
Thanks to Richard and Adam for these suggestions.
#3. The Ghostbuster trap
We like to call this idea ‘The Ghostbuster trap’ because it’s of a device very similar, you place it in front of you and with a flash of light it opens. Within the radiance of cosmically advanced energy is your caller, standing in front of you, hands on hips, asking why you are going to be late again. If technological advances can keep this device small, then it could be the next video calling… kind of hologram calling if you would allow it to be called so.
Thanks Prassad for this one.
Everyone else pretty much said we would have telepathy in the year 10,000 or a variation of it at least. There were a few morbid suggestions; like there would be no people left to use mobile by that time, which we didn’t think was appropriate… not mentioning any names Stephen!
If you have any speculative suggestions you want to add (not telepathy or a variation of it!) please let us know in the comments section or get in touch with us @Nokia_Connects. Looking forward to more of your ideas!
DEKO
Nov 25th, 2011 at 07:28 am
can we have the phone just like in the cartoon named “Guilty Crown”….im looking forward to such type of phone….it’s powerful smartphone…
Rakesh Panchal
Jan 23rd, 2012 at 08:06 am
Just Awesome article.
Yoshiharu
Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:49 pm
This is an interesting and corvrotensial topic that I don’t think is going to come to a resolution anytime soon. I agree that students have these devices, know how to use them, and could/should be taught responsible uses for them in our educational system. However, I don’t think change will happen in relation to policies concerning these mobile devices until changes happen at the top of educational institutions. School boards and Superintendents have to be the ones that support this kind of change in school environments and unfortunately they are usually the adults furthest from technology use at least in my experience. It seems that the further up the ladder you go, the older the leaders get which usually means that they are not first hand users and are very reluctant even resistant to change.These devices do cause more than one concern for tech coordinators as well. Some will say that they have no control over the Internet service for those students that then equals unfiltered access. However, the regulations that requires tech coordinators to filter only applies to the service they provide. Thus if a student accesses porn on their iPhone while at school, then the school should punish the student just as if he had brought an adult magazine with no repercussions on the network administrator. However, the ease of hiding the porn on the electronic device is much greater as well as the ability to broadcast it to other electronic devices. In addition, it is easier to dispose of the electronic file from the electronic device in a split second that to hide a magazine.