A Contrarian Futurist  The Churchill Club recently asked a
handful of VCs to share a couple of non-obvious technologies
that we expect to disrupt markets over the next five years. Here
are my two predictions.  EyePhones Will Replace iPhones
Remember MS-DOS commands, and the WordStar keystroke
combinations we had to memorize? dataentryThen the first
Macintosh featured a mouse-driven GUI that was game-changing
because it removed a layer of friction for both the data going
in and coming out. When we tried that first model, we knew we
could never go back to a C prompt.  And yet the impact of
graphical computing was minor compared to how facial computing
will change our lives, and how we all relate to The Collective.
Think of it as a man-in-the-middle attack on our senses,
intercepting all the signals we see and hear, and enhancing them
before they reach our brains.  borgThis is not science fiction,
and based on prototypes I’ve seen, it’s a good bet that design
teams in Google, Apple, Samsung and various military