Google’s recently uprated Translate now can now translate conversations between major languages in real time.
A few years ago such an achievement was thought to be decades away. The new app can also translate street signs and other signs important to travellers.
To understand where the smartphone is heading we must first acknowledge that using the word ‘phone’ to describe these devices is the equivalent of describing a modern car as a ‘horseless carriage’. We never have appropriate language for new technology when it first arrives.
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Futurologist Ray Hammond insists that 4G networks are set to continue having an impact on society that will be far more profound than most people realise. He explains: “4G networks will extend high-speed connectivity through the air to allow businesses of every size to use the marketing, organisational and efficiency opportunities that will make business truly democratic. A small restaurant on the street corner now has the same opportunities to promote itself and attract customers in the super-fast world of 4G as the biggest chain of fast food outlets. The same is true for almost all other types of business.”
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