Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends

Wired: Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends
Taking a long-term view isn’t easy nowadays…

Pick no 2:
Mobile socialization: Already our cell phones and PDAs work well at both contributing to our social lives (i.e., getting in touch with friends) and spoiling them (i.e., meeting friends but ignoring them to answer cell-phone calls).
But according to futurists, we’ve only scratched the surface of figuring out how our portable communications devices can be of service.
What’s in store? How about mapping programs that show us whether anyone we’d like to see is nearby. Or a mobile reference modeled on Wikipedia that can tell us if the restaurant on the corner is any good. Perhaps a few voice-recognition applications that actually work.
While we’re at it, why not throw in programs to protect our privacy by limiting who has access to information about where we are?