![]() ![]() The Holy Grail of all digital business – what if someone could create a way for you to essentially enter the world of a Facebook-like service and virtually walk around and interact using an avatar. It could become a way to move the virtually connected social space of Facebook into the real world, or simply a way to further integrate a Facebook-like application into your life – instead of having to hold your phone to read status updates, you could do so hands-free with the glasses. Nice, right? Now, imagine that you ran into another person with these glasses (or another accessory that worked on the same principle) and you could trade information about each other in a Facebook friend-like fashion. In its current form, there’s no way it could replace Facebook, but people have already modded it in interesting ways that open up all kinds of possibilities – like, for example, translating what someone is saying to you in another language in real time, with the translated text showing up for you to read in the glasses. It’s Google’s latest big idea, and essentially it’s a pair of glasses that let you take pictures and share the world around you with people. ![]() You might have heard of this one already. Let’s take a look at a few possibilities that range from the highly plausible to seeming closer to the realm of science fiction – though plenty of people would have said that about our current world 20 years ago. Something that will come along and alter how we interact with the internet and the world. It does seem pretty clear, though, that if one thing is here to stay, it’s change. The simple answer to what will come after Facebook, of course, is that no one really knows. In the physical world, you can even add to the “change” list things like VHS to DVD to BluRay to the pure information of the digital download that encompasses video (movies and TV), audio (music, podcasts and so on), and text (the crazy emergence of eBooks). ![]() In the last few decades, we’ve gone through the rapid ascent (and even faster decline) of such luminaries as AOL, Yahoo!, and MySpace, among others. ![]()
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