Alcohol is the traditional fuel of journalism, so perhaps it was particularly appealing that Intel showed off a computing device powered by wine at the final day of the Intel Developer Forum.
As "mobility" is now the watchword at Intel, it made sense that Genevieve Bell, director of interaction and experience research at Intel, provide Intel's vision of the future. Well, seven billion futures, Bell suggested, one for each person in the planet—each governed by a user's unique, contextually-driven interactions with mobile devices.
Bell, an anthropologist by profession, often appears at IDF to provide a softer, more human contrast to the detailed descriptions of transistors and logic that characterize Intel's developer conferences. Bell and her team conducted 250,000 interviews in the last year across 45 countries to construct a worldwide mosaic of how users interact with their mobile devices.
In fact, one of the themes of Bell's talk was that although mobile devices are growing rapidly—6.3 billion mobile subscriptions are spread over 4 billion people, with 1.9 million cell towers moving 5 exabytes of data—the industry was wrong to focus on the devices themselves.
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