After reviewing the table of contents of the Horizon Report 2010 for any technology that might appear personally interesting, the subject of Augmented Reality caught my interest, as it aligns with my area of research, which is personalized artificial intelligence. The article examined mainly how a few organizations are delivering real-time content as a visual overlay for example, via camera-capable cell phones, which know your location and what you have in the view of the cell phone camera. Other uses and delivery technologies are discussed as well. I could see this as being expanded to the extent of Wikipedia, such that we may have access to point delivery of knowledge about whatever we are looking at, in the moment, as though we were in a virtual museum.
A capability such as briefly described above would also help to deliver one of the key trends described in the Horizon Report 2010: "People expect to be able to work, learn, and
study whenever and wherever they want to." I would expect that the advancement of augmented reality would well serve the goal anytime learning. However, we may well find that we need more reliable and immediate technology access, which could lead us to choose a more Borg-like arrangement with technology.
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