Comments on: 1 Million GM Radios Can Now Do This https://www.ceoutlook.com/2017/12/26/1-million-gm-radios-can-now/ News, analysis and comments on the car audio and electronics industry Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:58:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: Ray Windsor https://www.ceoutlook.com/2017/12/26/1-million-gm-radios-can-now/#comment-16326 Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:58:10 +0000 https://www.ceoutlook.com/?p=62135#comment-16326 I suggest that in the not too distant future the need to carry a cell phone everywhere will be reduced significantly. All of the “things” (stations), cars, refrigerators, stoves, TVs, office furniture, computers, bathrooms, restaurant tables, cash registers, wash machines, fueling centers, etc…, we use will be connected via 5G or whatever the mobile phone signal is called at the time and/or Wi-Fi. We will sign on at each station instantly and automatically (facial recognition, iris recognition, voice print, thumb print, RF ID implanted chip…etc). The need to “touch” a device to interact with it will be reduced due to AI incorporated with voice recognition. At these stations we will be able to call, surf the net, view our kids in their cribs or at their school, receive self specific communications, set the water temperature of our bidet, etc… Our groceries, gas, car wash, coffee, etc… will be charged through this CON-CON Mode (Constant Connection Mode).

We won’t have to carry stuff like phones, keys, credit cards or cash. We’ll just have to be sure we are “signed up”. Of course ultimately our “sign up” credentials will be issued at birth and the “sign up” activity will occur on the spot when have a desire to do anything that requires payment in exchange for goods and/or services at the place where these goods and services are available. Of course all of these places will be open 24/365 with little need of human presence save restocking the shelf and the occasional “clean up at isle 7” requirements.

While all of the technology exists to execute this CON-CON today, I perceive it will take a generation or two for us to get used to the idea. Fifteen years ago I said that about “self driving cars”. I think fifteen years however is only one half of a generation. I am kinda glad to be around to be witnessing the on-set of CON-CON. I am not so sure how I will like it when the alternative to use the “old way” is not available. I am absolutely sure our business and all business for that matter will have to do it.

Ray Windsor

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