Bill Gates, a software magnate, investor and philanthropist, has predicted a new type of technology that would, among other things, replace modern smartphones.
The American billionaire and the co-founder of Microsoft made reference to the electronic tattoos developed by a company called Chaotic Moon, a biotechnology-based technique that aims to analyze and collect information from the human body through tattoos.
The billionaire businessman indicated that the tattoo he is talking about will be able to store data. Among the data that this tattoo will store, there is initial talk of medical and sports information, with which it will be possible to prevent and control diseases, as well as improve physical and sports performance by means of vital signs.
Gates Wants Electronic Tattoos to Replace Smartphones
The co-founder of Microsoft noted that although this electronic tattoo is still in the development phase, it is known that it will be applied temporarily on the skin, with small sensors and trackers that send and receive information through a special ink that conducts electricity. By so doing, it will transmit and receive data and eventually replace smartphones.
Although it is not yet possible to speak of an approximate time for the electronic tattoo to be available, Gates and his team are looking for a way to use it to become the new device with which people carry out many of the things they do through smartphones.
However, the initial implementation of electronic tattoos is not enough for Bill Gates, who wants this futuristic device to become the replacement for today’s smartphones.
Bill Gates’ idea, which has already been seen in several Hollywood movies, is that people can use the electronic tattoo developed by Chaotic Moon to call, send messages or look up an address.
Smartphone Idea Looked Like Science Fiction Years Ago
Horace Dediu, a former Nokia executive who now runs the consultancy Asymco, agreed with Gate’s prediction, stating that beyond what the world had before, the change in smartphones will bring computing power in the palm of hands and on skins.
“Besides being powerful, they’re going to be ubiquitous. Not only in the skin of nearly every person on the planet, but also with them, or by them, all day long. They will be more popular than TVs and more intimate than wallets.”
Horace Dediu
Mr Horace Dediu recalled that even before the first smartphone was designed, it looked like an impossible accomplishment just like how the conversation about a tattoo on the skin replacing smartphones sounds impossible.
“All the things you can now do with a smartphone would have seemed like science fiction only a decade ago. Things such as: translate signs, translate words, take voice input and search the web, recognise a face, add another layer to reality showing you the quickest way to a tube or restaurant or the history of your immediate surroundings, show you where your friends are in real time, tell you what your friends think of a restaurant you’re standing outside, show you where you are on a map, navigate you while you drive, contact the starship Enterprise. Well, perhaps not the last one. Even so, a smartphone today would have been the most powerful computer in the world in 1985.”
Horace Dediu
However, it is not the first time that the tech savvy billionaire Bill Gates has dared to make predictions, as he showed previously when he spoke about a new pandemic that would attack humanity, now the author and lecturer has spoken of an electronic tattoo.
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