Will Sullivan, 2010-2011 FellowToday was an interesting day with a lot of future think sessions. A lot of ideas made me think of sci fi movies, like Minority Report. My mind is overwhelmed. One panel about Mobile in 2020 was particularly inspiring to listen to and see a lot of examples of mobile products from leading R&D firms (and panels usually are pretty difficult to make amazing).
One central theme that most of the panelists discussed — and many of the keynotes and presenters including Eric Schmidt’s keynote yesterday — discussed the looming debate over users privacy and user data. There’s amazing potential to make rich, personalized, hyper-localized, automated, intelligent, efficient experiences and customized, interactive interfaces with mobile tools, but you have to be comfortable with letting some privacy go.
Some of the real ideas that were discussed, like developing mobile apps or devices that can sense your emotions based on the tension in your voice … it just blows my mind. I don’t know if they’ll come to market, and if so, in what form but most people are going to have to work through their personal issues with privacy and find out what they’re comfortable with because I don’t think the majority of the public is ready to surrender their privacy.
Will the public surrender privacy for the sake of innovation, convenience and customized technology tools in the future? Could you be the next John Anderton accused of precrime!?! I know it’s a big jump, but it’s amazing to think of the potential of these tools and what the world will be like in even just 10 years. 
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