I have smart phone envy. I’m seeing too much footage on other people’s cameras when I’m in public places. The’re not really smarter than other phones, they just have better cameras.

Another next day gap. Must do something about this.

Perhaps, when I’m typing about smart phones, that not what I’m talking about. It’s a bit like blokes at work talking about cars or motorbikes. That’s not really about what they’re really talking about. Or maybe, I should just take it at face value. Maybe I’m just jealous I can’t join in with out looking out of place.

My life may be better if I had a better car. Their lives may be better too. Advertising and aspiration can do that. But sometime in the future, owning or even leasing a car will sound ridiculous. You’ll just press a button on your expensive smart phone (if they still exist) and a robot driven whatever will collect you and all the friends who who want to impress. I want that smart phone and magic app now!

I’ll make a prediction that apps will always be called apps, in the same way that pod casts still exist and iPods don’t (it’s all smart phones these days!).

In the future, everything will be run by smart phones. They won’t be special glasses in the way Google planned, we’ll just upgrade chips in our heads. How I want one of those special upgraded heads! The implant from Tesco worked fine, but it’s not the image I need. Definitely, upgraded heads are the way to go.

In the old days the way people used to upgrade their heads was to read books. And as it goes, some heads were better than others. Some heads hurt when they tried to learn. Some people upgraded their eyes with glasses and this helped. But many others ended up with better eyesight and heads that hurt when they read new stuff.

Smart phones (repetition I know!) are a short cut to a new world, to new life chances, to knowledge, and more importantly looking good to others. More importantly, its a way to sell people a £600 piece of tech and get them tied in to contracts that probably cost the eventual owner of an outdated phone twice as much as if they paid up front. And when I say people I mean young children too.

Steve Jobs of once said that he’d never let his children use iPads. They are way too addictive. There are no short cuts to upgrading your head. Read a book – even if it is on an iPad (use a Kindle!). And remember this. When you press a button on your lovely app, there’ll be some bloke on minimum way lifting, cleaning, or delivering something. They may be dreaming of a brighter future with the car and the new phone too.