Technology Futurist Sees Wireline/Wireless Network Consumer Differentiation Ebbing
Practical futurist Michael Rogers predicted that in the next decade, people will essentially pay for privacy rights, consumers won't differentiate between wireline and wireless networks and most will use numerous connected devices. During a keynote at the annual CEDIA trade…
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show this month in Dallas, he said that “privacy will cost money.” Apple, Google and Microsoft have different policies on how they use customer data, and there's a divide forming on how much consumers are willing to pay for products and services in the personal data trade-off, he said. By the early '20s, European regulators will have established regulations, and global standards for stricter online privacy will be in place, Rogers said. He envisioned a market for “high-end privacy where you still get all the services you expect in the virtual world but you are considerably more private.” He visualized a luxury service package combining ease of use, security and privacy “that’s not a mass-market opportunity,” he said. By the early '20s, there will no longer be a delineation between wired and wireless network speeds, leading to a 24/7 connected experience, Rogers said. Consumers will be carrying or wearing five or six connected devices all the time and those devices will be managed by “seamless hand off,” he predicted. They will leave home and their network connection will automatically hand off to the car, then to a public space and then to the office, he said. “Everything around you will work better when connected to Internet: from the car to the refrigerator to picture frames.”