I spent a couple of hours yesterday at Alcatel in Sydney being shown some of their visions for the near future for convergence… and in particular IPTV.

Some incredible stuff. Particularly the change that Consumer Created Content makes. They have done some amazing things. But as they told me it is not about what they are thinking now. They feel that they are in the same position as Henry Ford trying to establish what the customers of the world are looking for…. who in turn are only able to describe the world in their own familiar terminology. (As Geoff Heydon, who one of the leading evangelists in the company, said: “If Henry Ford has asked people what they wanted from transportation, they might have said they want their horses to run faster”)

We are reaching the point where a new language of reference needs to be invented to describe the things that are going to be possible. We will have the ability to have such totally immersive experiences that virtual reality is now possible…

In this world who knows what content and media will become…. ?

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