How would the world look like if everything was possible
from the technology perspective? If we had unlimited computational and memory
resources and if data transfers happened instantaneously and without any
losses. In other words, if the physical world did not put any limitations on
technological capabilities. Would we have a completely different world, with
more and richer services and new industries that do not even exist today? Practice
shows that every technological breakthrough gave us a new disruption – just
think of what we can do today thanks to mobile broadband.
Every new child in the world starts from the latest state of
technological progress. We love technology, so our kids know that every room
has a large screen and speakers where you can stream any content available on
the web, cloud storage or devices. This is their starting point. Servitization
is in their blood, devices around them are stupid, and services serving them
are intelligent. When they want to get hold of some digital content they expect
it to happen instantaneously and device- and location-independently. This is at
least how my 8-year-old thinks. But what about my ½-year-old? He has no limits,
not yet. He has not been told about the limits. How creative could he become if
there were no technological limits? And isn’t it why we love virtual reality
and prefer Minecraft instead of Lego. As
my good friend and colleague Leonid Mokrushin once said: “If it’s software, everything
is possible”.
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