Why everyone will need their own personal super computer to compete

Most digital geeks will have heard the term - "Quantified Self".

Currently the consumer applications of this - have manifested themselves into "pseudo health" tech - like Nike +, like Fitbit, like JawBone etc.. Basically Internet of Things .. things.. that take crude sensor reading - like a pedometer - and upload the data to the internet - so you can track your fitness, your progress and your health.

However, we all know, that in the new Hour Glass economy - we all have to compete to get to the top .... as the middle class is disappearing .. and the bottom of the Hour Glass is a dreadful dispirited place.

To compete, we will need, digital helpers/assistants - powerful machines helping us with our decisions - all our decisions - quietly in the background.

To start - they will analyze our digital and financial history - our health stats - our location - our travel - our relationships - and try initially to find patterns - to make sense. It is likely the computer - will also askt - survey like questions - where it needs specific data.

From there - it would start - just by offering up basic info-graphics - which could be broadcast - to a device such as Google Glass. Non-threatening - but useful snippets of information.

That would be stage one.

The next stage - would be - the "Optimized Self" - the device offering tips - to make you more efficient. However, this would be no - dumb device. If the computer suggested - you need to take more walks - and your didn't - it wouldn't repeatedly offer this advice. It would adapt. It would find other ways to optimize.

The Personal Super Computers - will initially be very expensive - and will be bandwidth hungry. Like glass - the computer - will see and hear - what you do. They will require expensive - data plans to run.

For the super rich - it is likely they will not connect - but their staff will - their helpers.

Those without - access to this computing power - will in the future be relegated to the bottom of the hour glass.

Biostamp and the contact-less Airport

With facial recognition - and other bio-metric techniques (fingerprints) not used in Airports globally - it is surely only time - before we move to the next step - embedded personal identifiers.

In essence - chip.

Sure - someone could hack a chip out of someone - but it is probable the chip would be tuned to a specific DNA - a two step authentication mechanism (and combined with facial coding/gate coding) - pretty hard to beat!

How many business travelers (I'm talking about Global Business Dev's) would implant a chip - knowing that they can walk straight through customs - on a global basis.

A big time saving - and significantly less stress - meaning potentially better sales.

The idea's of a product like biostamp are endless - and scary.

It is a product the turns us into - a thing - as far of the "Internet of Things" is concerned.

Our body - just becomes another device - broadcasting its data.

Machine Learning versus Human Understanding

The concept of machine learning - is going to change the world - and although the term is bandied about - along with "Big Data" and "IOT" - the impact is going to swifter and more brutal than the impact e-commerce had.

So where is it going to impact?

Well as a guide - I would say - outsourced/off-shored areas - where the work - requires a human brain - but is also highly scripted - and methodic.

And the companies - that this threatens? - well - companies who offer off-shored solutions.

And how will this threat be manifested? - cloud sourced - machine learning solutions - which require a small pool of trained humans to help create the machine learning models.

So in a way it is a threat and an opportunity.

The opportunity - humans - who can create - and populate - quality machine learning models.

iWatch and Bio-metric Measurement

The whole bio-metric field is waiting for a killer product.

I think that product could be the iWatch.

We do have products like:

• Fitbit
• jawbone
• Nike+ etc...

 However - currently these are Niche offerings - for the obsessive.

I think that the iWatch will bring - biometrics into the mainstream.

I do worry that Tim Cook - might be too scared to launch such a product - he is no Steve Jobs nor is Johhny Ive. There is a risk they will over-design and choke. However it is reported that Tim Cook is a fan of Nike+ - so it is only a matter of time.

But if they don't... biometrics is going to be another data input - another digital fingerprint.

Not only will marketers know - what, when and where you have ventured in your digital explorations - they might also have some indication of your state of being at the time.

The main challenge will be making sense of the data - context being a key ingredient - deep profiling and segmentation another.