Is it me or is there a rush of research coming out from the human factors fields about the future effects of web enabled technology?

Newsweek magazine devoted a whole issue recently on how wireless technology, such as cell phones, would BE the next PC’s.

The reading I’ve been doing lately inspired me to write, in my blog entry called, Speaking in Usability Code:

     ”In my Sci-Fi head, I’m visualizing Google installing a bit of sofware into our bodies, like my dog’s ID micro-chip is implanted into him in case he gets lost. Google can follow us around, indexing addresses, bank statements, what you buy and directions to your in-laws house. Putting privacy issues aside, WE would be the Google-bots.”

Even Cre8asiteForums isn’t immune to the rumblings and introspective, probings and experiments, by some members. Many are completely dissatisfied with what presently exists. Others offer a variation on someone else’s idea. We’re attracting more and more pioneers and thinkers in our quiet community. We may not be Danny Sullivan or Brett Tabke’s kind of forum, but some of the best work is done in solitude or a small kitchen table with some friends.

Have you ever picked strawberries in a field of strawberries, under the blazing hot sun? All that bending over and reaching, hands poking around green leaves looking for the juicy, plump red fruit hiding underneath…and unless there’s a huge crowd there, you’re essentially just alone in that giant farmer’s field. When you’ve finished, you’re feeling satisfied that you got what you wanted but the field is still tranquil and producing more, regardless of your intrusion into it.

We don’t do that with technology.

It’s not going to be that way with the Web, is it.