Throughout the day I change that collection, closing some and opening others.
I focus, refocus, arrange and rearrange them constantly.
Its most commonly part of the platform operating system.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
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There is an often talked-about trend that we are moving away from the app economy.
But be sure the app economy is safely protected by the infinite workflows that it improves.
But there are also areas where monolithic software is seeking to capture entire workflows.
Fields that have developed specialized workflows can be improved with consolidation.
This promises to magnify the impact of computing in a very human way.
I am the creative lead on the Magic Leap project, so I use these devices every day.
Which means amplifying the ability of humans to put together productive workflows.
Goodbye screen edges, hello placefullness
The first advantage here is the display.
The edge here turns out to be literal.
With a wearable mobile computer, there is no edge to the screen.
The entirety of the physical space around you’ve got the option to now hold running applications.
A trick that is much more useful for calendars… especially if you have seen my calendar.
The work of arranging and rearranging apps does not go away.
In fact it picks up a new dimension of depth and accommodates physical objects.
But within that emerges a new value that lends itself particularly well to workflows.
I call this extra context placefullness, a concept first introduced to me by argo founderMark Rolston.
For consumers, placefullness will be a lot of Pokemon Go-styled fun.
Also because of the way our memories favor geography, placefullness will offer new organizational metaphors for computing.
For businesses, placefullness means digital workflows can now follow physical workflows.
Imagine yourself as a facilities engineer at a small brewery.
That traditional work feels like a small friction.
But multiply that times the thousands of times this happens everyday and it is a huge impact to computing.
For many businesses, the current iterations of devices are very deployable.
For a spatial computer to work, its given sight and the sensing capabilities of a human.
It sees and recognizes the human context.
The computer itself becomes more human.
When you wear a computer, you are looking outward at humanity rather than inward into computing.
He speaks internationally as a creative technologist and futurist.
