If our future is digital, what will be the biggest breakthrough?

Our world is full of screens. We keep them in our hands, bags and pockets, by our beds as we sleep, and surround ourselves with screens on our desks and countertops. What if all our screens, everywhere, were a two-way network system that turns the Earth into a digital room with everyone in it? What if that networked system provided everyone with the best services, resources, and insights in the world based on what we do, as a normal part of everyday life?

If your future devices were seamless and served you, your control over all your devices and the seamless digital world they could open up for you could expand exponentially.

You switch between multiple screens. When you leave your old screen, it stores “where” and “who” you are and then turns off. Your new screen recognizes you, turns on, retrieves “where” and “who” you are, puts you “there”. It is truly automatic.

All kinds of things are in front of you, with you. They can be people, services or places. It can be apps or software, digital content (books, TV shows, movies, music, recorded videos, and more), games, or live video of events around the world. It could even be other devices and sources that you control remotely.

Your digital life will always be on, always open, always yours. You will live in your “Shared Planetary Life Spaces”.

Combine anything in the digital “shared space” you want to inhabit, until you switch to a different one. Then it changes again.

In fact, it’s so real that your “shared spaces” move with you across your screens and become one of your realities. It is the digital world you choose, where you can live. Always ready for you to use it the way you want.

Much of your life is already focused on you. Then your digital life will allow you to become the person you’ve always dreamed of being.

Your digital life is a real life. Wherever you really are.

For billions of people around the world, yesterday’s world is not succeeding enough or fixing problems fast enough. Too many are trapped, educated, aware, capable and connected, but locked in a limited future rather than free to fly.

Isn’t it time for your reality to be yours, continuous and under your control?

Something else that future technology will offer is called active knowledge. What if the best knowledge, tools, resources and opportunities to succeed could be delivered as part of what we do every day, while using our screens? Everyone could become capable of performing as well as the best in the world.

Then, with a universal interface, everyone could push the limits of the physical world from anywhere. It won’t matter if you’re in Silicon Valley or a small town in Africa.

You will be a global person who connects everywhere. The entire world and its best knowledge and resources will be local to you, at your fingertips, under your control.

Everyone could make it to the top.

Is it time to expand today’s limited devices and expand today’s limited world? Should we start a digital world where everyone can choose to be their best, where greatness can be normal?

This will not happen overnight. But unlike any previous generation in history, we know how to design and build our dreams.

One day greatness will be within our grasp. But instead of waiting, can we reach it now?

This article is an excerpt from the new book Imagine A New Future: Creating Greatness for All. See http://imagineanewfuture.com