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Last week I was invited by Chinwag Live to be on the panel of their Xmas Futures event where the `Experts in Digital’ are grilled for two hours on what the future would hold for digital in 2013. It was a great session and you will be able to listen to the podcast from the Chinwag site soon. I was joined on the panel by:

Jonathan Mitchener – Futurologist & Principal Research Scientist, Devices BT

Simon Collister – Head of Digital, Weber / Shandwick

Neville Hobson – Communicator, podcaster, blogger

Ewan MacLeod – Founder of Mobile Industry Review

Richard Titus – Head of User Experience, BBC Future Media and Technology (Chair)

I really enjoyed the event and some great thinking came out of the session as to what direction we are headed. We started looking at Mobile Devices where I predicted that we would have multiple devices moving forward, but we would access our online life (contacts, mail, pictures, videos, documents) from one central device. Neville (loved Neville) commented that one of the main obstacles in making this happen is the current lack of collaboration from the major players. Jonathan (who I really liked and will be keeping in touch with) then discussed his three C’s of future devices. Co-Operation: where we will see devices working with multiple software platforms. Clarification: A deeper understanding of what we want to do when using social networks, and Connection: Your device is clever enough to know who you will want to connect to dependent on your lifestyle.
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