Michael Bjorn

Half of all the smartphone users we talked to believe that internal sensors will give updates on their health and well-being in only three years, it’s a bit like wearables, but internal sensors in our bodies will be the new wearables. It doesn’t even stop there, he added. When you start asking questions about this, you realize eight out of 10 smartphone owners would like to augment things like sensory perception and cognitive ability with technology. So you have interest in things like vision, memory and hearing and, to me, that is quite surprising.

In our research, we see that more people communicate using text than calling on the phone. So the idea that we may want to contact emergency services via social networks, rather than trying to remember what phone number to call, is not so alien.