Reacting to Mobile Computing-The Next Decade

Running head: REACTING TO MOBILE COMPUTING-THE NEXT DECADE 1
A Reaction to Mahadev Satyanarayan piece: Mobile Computing-The Next Decade
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REACTING TO: MOBILE COMPUTING-THE NEXT DECADE 2
Mahadev Satyanarayan piece titled Mobile Computing: the Next Decade shows how the
future in mobile computing will be really effective in solving critical human problems more
efficiently. They will offer more than a lucrative business proposition through advertising
opportunities and will be core resources in critical life situations. Satyanarayan shows that
mobile devices will advance in their functionality to become rich sensors, which, when
incorporated with their communication and computing roles, will be really important. The author
offers different imaginary mobile computing scenarios showing the rich sensing role in different
gadgets will be the outstanding feature of the devices. These fictional scenarios involve
situations in which people are in troublesome states or condition including, parents losing their
child in a heavily crowded event, rescuers trying to navigate an unmapped territory, A young
veteran trying to recover from a traumatic brain injury and a pathologist who has to interpret a
pathology slide remotely. In all these scenarios, Satyanarayan shows how the rich sensing
functionalities in mobile devices and applications are applicable in solving these challenges. The
author also suggests that crowdsourcing is essential for mobile computing to have a bigger
impact in solving peoples’ needs. The participation of a large number of smartphone users in
conjunction with the phones rich sensing capabilities will amplify their effectiveness. According
to Satyanarayan, advanced sensing capacity and crowdsourcing hence form the core themes for
future mobile devices and applications. The others include; near-real-time data consistency,
opportunism, and, transient use of infrastructure.
Satyanarayan piece is convincing since he uses situations that actually happen in real-life
in the imaginative scenarios to put his ideas across. Despite discussing the possibilities of
futuristic devices and their expected capabilities, the author uses scenarios that have commonly