4: THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Using the web to buy ‘in flight’ and get ‘in hotel’
This trend looks at our relationship with the internet and how it will take on a new meaning in the future. It focuses on how the internet will slowly move out of conventional devices such as the mobile and move into less likely items like magazines, for example. We could soon be buying items in-flight and receiving them at our destination. Or, ordering food from our mobiles and it being ready on the restaurant table on arrival – and so the phenomenon ‘from tablet to table’ is born.
• Did you know that computers of the next generation will need to be 1000 times faster in order to keep up with the speed that the industry is moving

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