years we’ve seen unprecedented technology growth, which will continue at an even faster rate, per Moore’s Law (named after Intel cofounder Gordon E. Moore who predicted in a 1965 paper that over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double approximately every two years, a prediction which has proven uncannily accurate). Likewise, we’re seeing, and continue to see, a boom in the way media is delivered and consumed. As pay models grow more open-ended and sophisticated, and as companies have more money to invest in research and development, it’s hard to predict what will come next.
In an interview with Alexis Madrigal for
The Atlantic, Genevieve Bell, the director of Interaction and Experience Research for Intel, said: “I think we will end up seeing this incredible layering of things: standard touch for some things, haptics (technology which encompasses digital feedback, like that on some videogame controllers) for others, voice for yet another thing.
“When you sit in a car, look at all the
different ways you have to engage with the machine,” she adds, citing steering wheels and pedals. We may not know exactly what the magazine equivalent is, but if it’s anything like driving a Porsche, we can’t wait to see it.