Mark Rolston of frog design explains the past, present, and future evolution of personal technology, describing changes in format – from mouse to touch screens, and controllers to interactive systems. He also gives several main points about the rapid escalation in technological changes taking place now, noting that personal technologies like cell phones are rapidly becoming multi-functional. He also points out that our second, virtual lives – on Facebook, through email, and via the Internet – are integral and intermixed in our first, physical lives.

Rolston considers a variety of uses for evolving mobile devices, not all of them strictly practical. In fact, he says, trivial uses for technology, like entertainment, are usually large incentives for advancement. However, he also gives several practical medical uses for remote monitoring devices and implanted Bluetooth chips.

As mobile devices change from wired to wireless, directed to interactive and evolving, from one-dimensional to multi-dimensional, the new technology will impact lives in numerous ways from camera-based eye replacements and implanted chips that monitor glucose levels to unknown and unimaginable possibilities.