Future impact of HCI

The future impact that future HCI systems like flexible screens will have on society, economy and culture.

Society:

The impact that flexible screens will have on society is that it will dramatically change the way devices look is flexible screens allow devise to become allot thinner that devices with normal LED or plasma screen, flexible screens could change the way devices work, one way the flexible devices could work is that when you bend the devices the image on the screen could zoom in and out, an example of this is the Nokia Morph concept phone witch is able to be open up into a tablet device, the phone is also able to folded around the users wrist turning the phone into a watch.
You can watch a concept video of the Nokia Morph in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2yiOhsFsc

The technology behind the Nokia morph is a little advanced for phone and computer companies at moment; however scientists have made flexible display screens called OLED screens, OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode these OLED’s are an organic compound that emits light when an electrical current is passed through it.
Below is a video of an OLED screen that can be rolled up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvTLg4i2_U

Economy:

The impact that that I think flexible screens will have on the economy is that companies that sell electronic device will start to make allot of money if they start selling devices with flexible screen, the reason the companies will be making money is that allot of people will want to buy the flexible devices because it is new and different and people will see other people with the devices and then they will want the device as well.
Another impact that flexible screens could have on the economy is that OLED screens can be used in varied working environment as they are allot tougher to break than an ordinary screen this means that OLED screens could be used in extreme environments like wars of when going rock climbing or scuba diving, the way the flexible screen could be used is that the flexible screen could be attached to the sleeve of a jacket of army uniform.

 

Culture:
The impact that I think flexible screens will have on culture is that I think it will affect developing nations this is because companies that sell electronics will have their flexible devices created in developing nations because it is cheap to have the products created there as they can pay the workers assembling the devices allot less in wages than they would if the company were to assemble the device in their own country, normally in these outsourced factories in the developing nation the employees are under paid and work long hours in dangerous working conditions.