namidae's 6S

this morning i read mkow's blog and got an idea about next generation of communication. i'm not a good initiator about new idea but i like to spend time on thinking and developing this stuff. i like to using pictures to present my idea as i'm not a good representative, so pls excuse my stupid drawings. anyways, here is what i thought based on mkow's brainstorming :)



1st gen - Face 2 Face (f2f)
this is what i start with... at the very beginning, each individial could only rely on talking / reacting with each other to express their feelings and demanding what they need. so, this is what 1st generation about:
- direct communication as a whole;
- rely on face to face contact and discussion

2nd gen - Phone
people starting work and live far from each other; however, communication is still necessary to survive. living standard and technology also started to arise, this 2nd generation becomes:
- people started to live with far distance
- direct communication becomes less important (say 1/2 left)
- face to face contact and discussion becomes less important
- hearing the voice is good enough to finish the communication (1/2 of whole)

3rd gen - Internet + Instant Messenger
Hearing the voice became the basic of communication from 2nd generation; however, the replacement, internet, started to develop during this generation. internet breaks the barrier of distance of people living and proving 'text' could also replace the need of voice:
- people started the need of mobility (say 1/4 of the whole)
- talking on phone requires to sacrifice the mobility of work
- direct communication becomes not important (say 1/4 left)
- using 'text' to replace the existance of phone conversation (1/2 of whole)

4th gen - Terminal (facebook, twitter...)
mobility becomes more and more important to each individual. people couldn't stand for staying in front of the instant messenger to discuss while leaving 'messages' (like voice mail in 2nd generation) instead. people started to believe communication is not necessary to work directly all the time. therefore, such terminals are helping people on this:
- mobility becomes the basis of life
- indirect communication being popular (3/4 of the whole)
- ways of direct communication still has their values but become very minor (1/4 of the whole)

when observing its trend, 'mobility' will, sooner or later, become the whole of communication. people inside this kind of community(F/B, twitter) can visit and discuss with each other. however, up to 4th gen, people still require to 'login' / 'access' those terminal to let people know their update. and also, people outside this community would never know what where those updates. so what i'm thinking of 5th gen will be like this:


all these communities will be united into one and people no need to login to it while the community will update all people about their friends' status. say for this example:
mkow is now riding his bike without carrying his laptop. when he passes a message collector, he could use his phone to send his message to the collector.(it doesn't matter what kind of message is sending as all communities are united) The collector will then transfer mkow message to the terminal, so that namidae would be notified about mkow's location right now.

under this situation, people are not bounded by each individual communities but the access to this united community. as i remembered mkow told me 'i want to buy iphone, so that no need to bring netbook'. this line implies that the need of netbook is access the web -> community, if the phone could do this, netbook is no need to carry.


that's what i thought about 5th gen, mkow, now is your turn to help on tweaking this :)