[Mobilize] Coming Up: Multi-Billion Systems
Story posted on: September 18, 2008
What if billions of people could share photos and live accounts of news events and other goings-ons? Wouldn’t a clearer picture of the world emerge?
That’s the expectation of Marc Davis, chief scientist at Yahoo!, who says such “multi-billion systems” are the likely consequence of rapidly expanding cellular networks and improving handsets.
Whole new applications are possible, Davis said at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco.
Every year more than a billion handsets are sold, expanding the 3 billion or so people connected on mobile networks. The proliferation is changing news gathering already. After the London terrorist bombings, people posted photos from their mobile phones on Flickr. The world got an immediate image of what happened.
“How we come to know what’s happening will change dramatically,” Davis said.
By Mark Boslet, Editor at Large.
That’s the expectation of Marc Davis, chief scientist at Yahoo!, who says such “multi-billion systems” are the likely consequence of rapidly expanding cellular networks and improving handsets.
Whole new applications are possible, Davis said at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco.
Every year more than a billion handsets are sold, expanding the 3 billion or so people connected on mobile networks. The proliferation is changing news gathering already. After the London terrorist bombings, people posted photos from their mobile phones on Flickr. The world got an immediate image of what happened.
“How we come to know what’s happening will change dramatically,” Davis said.
By Mark Boslet, Editor at Large.
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