4 Predictions for the First Year of the Ambient Computing Decade | Electronic Design
In 2020, key technology building blocks in ambient computing will be ready for broader adoption and start to appear in consumer products.
Straddling the border between two decades, it’s now clear that the most impactful technological development of the past 10 years was the evolution of the smartphone into the most widely used computing platform in the world. Looking forward, the next decade will be marked by ubiquitous ambient computing, with sensors, displays, processors, and communications capabilities embedded throughout the physical environment.