In the not-too-distant future, you will have a driverless car that accepts voice commands for your destination. You will get in the car and read your news and messages on a device (probably a wearable one) that is connected to all of your other devices and machines, including your car, your home and office computers, your television, and likely your refrigerator and home thermostat, too.
All of these machines and devices will be intelligent, like your car, and connected to the internet. They will accept voice commands, link to your other devices and, based on your habits, routines and personal preferences, they will predict (hopefully with some degree of accuracy) what you need, what you want and when.
Copyright law may seem removed from this future, yet as technology has advanced over the past 15 years or so, so has...
Simon Doyle is the executive editor of Online News Services at Hill Times Publishing Inc. in Ottawa.
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