Could revolutionize our world. Ah, welcome to tomorrow to day. The dw science magazine, 5310000000 people use smartphones, meaning that 2 thirds of the worlds population rely on their devices in their everyday lives. We use them for shopping into adding in social networks, filming things, and playing games. And sometimes even for making calls live without a smartphone, is barely imaginable, but it may soon be a realistic prospect. Our love affair with the smartphone could soon be over. So say the bosses of sony, apple, facebook, and others, samsung exact d j co gives them another 4 years for now digital expert, cuz the on shiffler is still a smartphone. Junky. Lang, when he outdated money i, when i get out and swap, the 1st thing i look at is my smartphone justice and wakes me up a c. M, tom. Its the 1st thing i pick up. And the last thing i put down talk, ill stand cuba. But he also thinks theyre well past their zenith for this in here on in between with the citizens economists tell us that technologies have a product lifecycle, get the smartphone, the smartphone has been somewhere high up in terms of the Product Life Cycle for years. Its cons, i not one for you. You might not have bought a new smartphone for 5 years, and then you do and you realize its not much has changed to stagger misconduct. And those are all signs that the smartphone is reaching the end of the road. Us a smartphone, crazy invisalign ouse and typically that is the smartphone to meet the same fate as old style tvs, rotary, dial telephones, wireless radios, and walk mans. And if so, whats next . Digital ethics expert 0 should be come on, says Silicon Valley has a clear vision of whats to come as, as good notation of flushed. I dont think when ideas, of course, quite dominant in the tech world. Papa permanently having a Voice Assistant in your ear, who does everything for you, is 10 miles for i am the nym, nascar, like we saw this vision as a future in the film her and song. Oh, my kind little guy, bob. There are also glasses like a smart glasses. Google went to nailed that, let you take an avatar with you on this flight. You might have configured it in a Virtual World and then it has beneath you with a Voice Assistant action. So what about if our brain could directly communicate with the Digital World without typing swiping more voice commands . Recently a so called brain computer interface was launched that enables users to control programs with their minds a corporate video from the company. Next mine shows people playing video games, making music and using household devices all with the power of their thoughts. It sounds like science fiction. Ah. So we got hold of a test device to try it out. Christiane doesnt have a chip implanted instead. Sensors on the back of his head are supposed to register what hes thinking. I only have one on the, in the many digital devices i have time, ive never controlled any of them with mine outlet. Im very curious as to, if it works at all back up the super helpful wilson yet the brain computer interface or b c. I measures the brain waves in our visual cortex. When our eyes focus on a certain point, the sensors pick up this information and sent a corresponding digital signal to the computer, montanas caliber, he and, and i get the sonic and calibrated. And then theres a scale from 1. 00 to 5. 00. I know this one is the worst and 5 the best best done at the 1st several times. I used it. I only got one out of 5. So nothing at all. I just, i things of garnished and now im starting the calibration. Hell doesnt is in there, the 3 line i and if i do it well, a come together to form a triangle for being. Lets see, lam guy, egg on his microphone. Good christian succeed this time in controlling his brain waves so that a triangle is formed. Is it really as easy as the corporate video say it is while chris, john tries to connect his brain to the interface. We ask andreas chima from the tech company huawei, what he thinks will replace the smartphone. The smartphone built kind of my phones will have a central role in the way that they do now be busy, whole different devices will share different functions and ill be able to just move things back and forth between them depending on what situation and im kind of pushing on here, hold and they havent con enough team investment, is it . What if im on the sofa and have a big screen in front of me and gotten i can take a video called there, you call even of them go smoothly, can be uneven. Many times when i say ive got to go home, for example, to another room, i can just transfer it in there when they finish, even if i want to leave my apartment to me, i can take the video call with me on my smart phone line or my wearable, i submit for 2 of us at the end of the day, its about the devices adjusting to the user and not the other way around the motor and passing on the mac. Next up boulevard, what a future without smartphones might look like. But how did it all begin . In 1994, the i b m. Simon was the 1st device to feed to a touch screen. It was followed in 1996 by the nokia communicator the sensational development because it could send emails and faxes. And now 3, he is later, the 1st cell phones with cameras hit the market to see both come is, for example, had a modest resolution of 0 point one, mega pixel, 2007. So the birth of the smartphone, as we know today when the 1st i phone was unveiled, but all that could soon be history. Tech firms are working on the replacement for the smartphone. Google hopes to make touch screens redundant with projects solely. It aimed to track our every move using a tiny radar chip. Like a bat, it sends out short signals and interprets the echoes that come back. These are then transformed into digital signals. This would make touch screen superfluous. So maybe one day well be able to control our kitchen appliances, cars, computers, and Consumer Electronics with gestures using augmented reality glasses like microsoft hollow lens, its already possible to work with whole the grams in a Virtual Reality world. Cell phones barely play a role here any more. Discusses one on each under common consumer consumer belie thing, isnt consumer ready yet a garbage that theyre still working on as a foster . Hey, it says the brill are all and of course you can imagine in say, hey, get psyched, ill put on the glasses a tour and be able to check the temperature in my field of view in more small city me off. And when i have to go somewhere, i wont need to look at a matter which ever, instead not a fallen arrow wherever the sadness sends me, thus have i so clearly uses exist and whats the long hill him of a smart world is getting closer to becoming reality with but what happens to the huge amounts of data which these things collect about us . Thats more and more personal medical Data Movement files, buying behavior and emotional states. Isnt there a huge potential for miss use . The internet of things. Lets tech firms read each one of us like a book right down to the chinese details. Are we marching towards dystopian blade runner type society . Does it so confidence . Yes, i miss future that is being sold to us by Silicon Valley, virginia. Its like eli mosque and co will lead a straight to a dark place fact, and i dont good come on as this dark. This is dark science fixture that boxing and its dark sy fy. Theyve grown up with this is kind of ale longer, a world in which i have friends or pet fee, or a yard where people meet munsey, tift. Every one sits in, in a closed virtual space or 2 and the home with that. Now thats darker journalist and digital expert Christiane Schiffer doesnt have such a negative view of the Digital World. Here hes trying to connect his laptop to his brain as hard as hospice. Harker best is the best result to day to chicago taking that i, i think ill get a 3 outside shot. I too, too bad. Yeah. Others i did better at home. I could see that most of the time. It wasnt a triangle. But 2 out of 5, not a heads. 5 good enough to play games, colonel eyes with right. And so we could try brick breaker for exam breaker. Asked for young classes and song. Can he control the paddle using the power of thought alone . Ah, i mean, any time does either i buy it, i try talking at the same time i forget it. And you really have to concentrate the at the health concent here. Next up around of jump and run of sizes here. These are phase and here the clinton you see that half constant. And now i have to concentrate again and try to move it out of the way. My, my, my son, austin, picks up the we can use the touchpad to control the green, but he had the sc a shockey i had done his than god. I also need to shall have all the under it but i should oh, if vince ta ta fast. In ye and he had naked eye that is totally fascinating in gushed by. Id never have thought i could control anything with my mind us. I was a guy has a super thats quite an epiphany as us exploded him really strenuous, extremely slow food. And you always have the feeling that it just might not work on the same kind of 20 foster. And so i can imagine this will play a role next 5 years on the or in the coming years at all. Now, hard of multiple voicemail here by factor, but tech billionaire you learn musk is certain that it will work one day. Hes experimenting with brain computer interface or b c i implants, which he believes will be how people will communicate with the Digital World in future. So it might one day be possible to upload your thoughts to the cloud or connect yourself to the internet like smart devices. All right. Do people to be directly connected with robots, enabling them to master tough tasks or explore faraway places together. But thats all in the distant future back to the present. So what exactly will life be like in the post smartphone era . Mr. Mazetti, so doesnt im quite sure well be talking a lot via headphones and via and be a lot of competition that just like there was with smartphones to start this cover for saturday were Walking Around with many computers in our pockets, many quote, i can imagine in future will have the concept sound of many computers in our ears. Smart earbuds, a our glasses, smart homes, and maybe even mind controlled devices within because im sure that in 10 years at the latest, most New Buildings would be a, i support it. When the a i knows which actions to carry out, why do you need a smartphone or to cover your slot for the tech giant. Envision that in the near future will be fully integrated into a virtual parallel world in which we work, travel, and play. So we need to lay down legal and ethical rules for this brave new world. Now, because even if smartphones are on their way out, our growing dependence on technology will continue the measure. This is an integrated network of 3 d Virtual Worlds augmented mixed and Virtual Reality. But experts say that building it is expected to take another 20 years because it requires so much more computational capacity than whats currently available. And how exactly will it work . In the measure, this is a virtual space populated by peoples avatars. The next generation internet, basically where you can enjoy immersive into active environments and experiences. Entertainment games, crypto currencies and Everything Else you can currently find on the internet. And not just fantasy worlds, but duplicated real life environments. To forget shopping on websites, this Virtual World enables you to actually visit store. Its designed to be fun, but useful to you can meet up with friends and colleagues who are far away in the real world. Thats the promise of them it of us. It all sounds very exciting. But can you really imagine living in a parallel, Digital World, like the most of us, that will be housed view is on d. W. Social media channels. Maxima, roblis thinks its pure fantasy. He writes, reality is always superior, the Virtual World will not supercede the real one, but its something louis sample can imagine. Humans, he says, are known for their ability to adapt. So it wont be any different when it comes to a constantly evolving Digital World. For may more the met, reversed doesnt make any sense in terms of the perspective experience, although it might be interesting from a shopping fashion and beauty perspective, victor day is fenmont compares the to taking drugs to escape reality. But at some point, you have to return to your real life career. I cant imagine any benefit from living in a Virtual World and prefers the real one draw lima reckons its going to cause problems across society. For those who are exposed to these technologies and grow up with them, it will affect an entire generation social and communication skills. Thank you for your comments. Ah. The societal problems caused by the multiverse that joe lima mentioned in his post already evident in smartphone use. For many teenagers, their smartphones are given. In germany 96 percent of all 16 to 18 year olds use one among 10 to 12 year olds. The figures, 86 percent, and 21 percent of 6 to 9 year olds already have a smartphone. 3 years ago researchers at London University conducted a study covering Young Children and teenagers. 23 percent exhibited problematic signs of excess of use which can lead to depression and stress. Did you know that using a smartphone has an impact on your brain on our phones help us navigate. Remember birthdays look up info and capture special moments that did you know that relying on them heavily could be harming your memory . The study show let taking lots of photos can make us remember things less seeing the world dryer. Phones distracts us from many details around us. Have something feels smells, sounds. Our brain links this info to create stronger, long term memories. But smartphones shift our focus. Research even suggests that when we capture a moment with the intention of sharing it, we are more likely to remember it as it was captured, not as we experienced it. We look at our lives from the outside. There is one upside. Our visual memories could be getting stronger in a steady Museum Visitors who took photos noticed more visual details and looked at more objects than those who didnt. But what about those fun facts . The museum guide shared . Many had forgotten them. Another problem is cognitive offloading. We dont feel the need to remember something when our devices are already doing the job. We use them as our brains external hard drive. But like a muscle, the memory storage of our brain. The hippocampus, literally grows. When we train it, do you know any numbers by heart . Can you find your way without your phone . Why not try it for a day . Oh if our let is read why a. 8 do you have a science related question then send it in . If we feature it in our show, well send you a little surprise as a thank you. Come on, just dance. You can see our postal address at the end of the show, but you can also find us online at d, w dot com slash science or on twitter. This garage is said to be the birthplace of what eventually became the apple cooperation. Many of todays tech giant had humble beginnings. Now they influence the everyday lives of millions of uses. How will the Digital World of the future luck . One of todays young inventors wants to help the visually impaired to navigate their way through every day situations on the street. Mm hm. Rush can ahead clar, loaded by growth rudolph people. Myer is almost completely blind, but he can still identify objects around him. Thanks to an invention that gives him a heads up to marsh nish wants to help people with visual impairments and came up with a device he wear around your neck of, of google. As anna camacho for both of a, the device has a camera link to a computer come on and the camera records images that are analyzed using artificial intelligence. Harlan to identify potential danger, like a car and sensors measure how far away the obstacles are and saddle to him and his mist. Rudolph is testing the invention on his daily walks through regensburg hill from the adult. Id like obstacles to be flagged well in advance for a Pedestrian Crossing thats not adapted for the visually impaired. It should tell me if the lights green or red, if i can walk or not to green orders over can, can navigation aids for people with visual impairments is an expanding market tomasz who just finished high school, wanted his device to respond to the challenges posed by road traffic, he built a small computer that uses sensors and a camera to analyze the surroundings in real time. Yeah, the color is the cameras, the green ship here. It records 30 image is a 2nd of the road traffic and sends it to the a i system, gets flight up. The system can recognize objects and people and identify whether theyre potential obstacles. Thomas train the a i system using a database of 60000 images. Teaching it to differentiate between 10 different types of objects. You surveillance on by a Beautiful Day included . Pedestrian nodded. Its cars, as you can see here, would also so i suppose the motorbike or chairs benches, trash cans. When Pedestrian Crossing lansing, an x tests have shown that my a i system is about 75 percent accurate hyphen thats right in the middle of the performance range for object Recognition Networks is vos heights object there between about 70 to 80 percent accurate descriptions of social access port, saint thomas also wrote his own Software Program for the device. The result is a new kind of navigational aid that can identify obstacles in the surrounding area and inform the user through headphones act warnings. Pedestrian ahead. Lets take a look at how that works in practice. Well hear the information that rudolph is hearing, and see what the camera shows. The color boxes show what the a i system is identifying. But not every object should trigger a warning to marsh program, the software to identify which objects are obstacles. After warning, i bicycle ahead and which ones arent. The invention is still a prototype and intended only as an assistive technology. So rudolph also uses his came the 1st test, will the device identify and approaching pedestrian act warnings, gadarian ahead the message came relatively late. Will the Technology React more quickly to an approaching car off warning car ahead. When we were standing in the road earlier, i had the feeling that it reacted a bit late. Judging by the sound, the corridor already passionately form tornado is utterly shuffled by war. Not sir. Sorry sir. Tess, i use these kind of talent and recordings, so i can look at it afterwards. Forms study what happened and make adjustments to this is still fossil undecided, a sun naco steel. The next test is an important one in germany. Not every Pedestrian Crossing has an acoustic signal for visually impaired people. Act a warning to on the cross walk. Light is ranch the stop the on the light is green. He could you may proceed. Although long food will crosswalk it was really great all at Pedestrian Crossings. Its especially important because many lights dont have acoustic signals or additional tactile information. So thats a very important situation where this device can really help with you heard from home. So how happy is rudolph with the invention overall. Legacy is continually there are definitely a few things that need to be improved, but its really on the right path. Youll keep it up to. So its very me the story orse. So unless ill use what weve learned here today to make improvements, im quite happy with the way that it recognized the cross spotlights. Then thats fine. Whats very important to me, lou camacho would also like to make his device much smaller, and he already has a new design in mind. 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