School is a waste of time. While I'm sitting in class, learning about things I will never need or use, the world is passing me by. Right now what I should be doing is brainstorming ideas that this world needs. Things that people haven't thought of before. I can always come up with imaginative ideas or solutions to problems, why can't I arrange these ideas in a way that is practicle, and that can create real change. What I need is one idea that I can work with, and develop.
Right now the world is on the edge. There is some big idea that is just waiting to poke its head out for all to see. Computers continue to wiggle their way into new places. Now, everyone has a cellphone to connect with eachother, mp3 players are making they're way into phones. Digital cameras are turning into phones. Video cameras are turning into phones. Telephones are being turned into computers. A PDA is now not a seperate tool, the phone IS the PDA. The phone does so many things. Your telephone IS your personal digital assistant. With all these advancements, cellphones are still pretty simple. Right now, a cellphone is basically just a mobile way to communicate with other people. They do have a few bells and whistles, but there is much more potential.
Why can't the phone do everything? We know that at the moment a cellphone is a far cry from having the processing power of a personal computer, so many tools that could possibly be integrated are out of the question. But why not just skip that. We already have high-speed data connections for several cellphone service providers. Instead of doing all the work on the physical phone, why not relay the data over the network to a online service or personal computer. The service could collect the information from the cellphone, and perform the necessary operations to come up with the required result.
Voice recognition is integrated into many models of cellphones, although it is just to automatically dial a telephone number.
Adding a more full complement of the language recognized by the software would require much more processing power and resources of the phone. Since it is possible to integrate mp3 playing software into a phone, the reverse could be used. Record the vocal commands with the telephone's microphone, convert to an mp3 file, and upload to the online service to be uncompressed and analysed, and then operated upon.
This would allow almost instant knowledge for anyone wherever they are. News, current sports scores, weather. But all these are already available with a simple cellphone browser. But by combining this technology with a simple form of artificial intelligence, a person could carry on a conversation/interview with their own cellphone, asking a question, the question is sent to the service, the answer is found, and sent back to the cellphone which answers the person doing the asking.
