The Next New Thing

I don’t know for sure what the way new media will follow is, I think no one knows. On one hand people keep on working on improving existing examples of new media (e.g. social sites) to make them more interesting or more secure. On the other hand some say all the commotion over those innovations will decline, because it is already saturated, initial excitement is over and people start noticing drawback (loss of anonymity, “time thief’, security threat). It is only natural that new enterprises are developed: to help us to leave Web 2.0 (e.g. removeyourname.com, to help us improve our image for potential employers).

As for the idea for completely new form of new media I was thinking of something with the use of holograms. I react best to visual cues. What if we can go a step further with social networking and add a feature of hologram. We could ‘meet’ with someone who is miles away via tech gadgets, by displaying their 3d image in our living room… Could you imagine class discussion of 20 holograms of classmates? I don’t have specifics on how to do it technically, but I’m pretty sure it would be possible in near future ;)