This Listicle Will Change Your Life

Here are 5 digital concepts I want to see in 2015. Some of them may be impossible. Most of them are inadvisable.

1. Cookie Map


Advertisers froth over re-targeting and with good reason. Cookies and consumer data are working overtime for the ad industry and now it’s our turn.

I want to be able to easily map my browsing habits. The idea came from looking at this visualisation of pro-Israeli vs pro-Palestinian tweets created by Gephi:

You can read more about the implications of people with similar views sourcing news from similar outlets and the infinity loop that creates here.

However bitter geopolitical conflicts aside I want to see where my browsing leads. I know from habit where I spend my time — could a cookie map help me discover similar sites? I want to see my browsing as geography, with interests mapped out and compared to others.

Yes, I am fully aware of what this map could reveal about my click-bait fetish.

2. Just Eat This


I love Just Buy This One. I’m envious of it and addicted to it.

You forget how exhilarating it can be to make a decision until you click a button and the best toaster on the market pops up.

I want that same experience for eating out. I’m sick of Yelp and TripAdvisor. I’m sick of options and sifting through reviews. I’m hungry — tell me where to eat.

One app. One button. Tell me the best food under $30 within 15 minutes of where I am and I’m there.

We can argue over the best spending levels and distance ratios for the app after we eat.

3. Netflix of Sports


I want to stream live sports or watch past games from around the world. I am willing to pay money to be able to leap between NCAA College Football and Serie A on any device.

Yes I know sport broadcast rights are locked in multi-billion dollar contracts.

Can you just give me the best games of the last 20 years for $9.99 a month then?

If not a legal Netflix version then how about a cable proxy like Popcorn Time for sports?

4. A Full Length Monument Valley Game


This would conceivably end my career and any loving relationships I have.

Brevity may be the secret ingredient to an experience as beautiful and mesmerising as Monument Valley. The second play never stood a chance.

However ustwo have the power. Imagine a full length Monument Valley game with a map builder. The platform could host a community of builders determined to outwit eachother with arcane levels and mindbending perspective tricks.

We need to unleash this on the world.

5. Smart TV’s With Console Hardware Built In + Cloud Libraries


This is number 5. What did you expect? I went for the moonshot on this one.

TV’s should have console-level graphic hardware built in and games can move to the cloud.

No discs, no consoles. Just controllers and high-speed internet.

Pick up and play. Consoles can be seen as a loss-leader for Sony and Microsoft. Both companies have introduced cloud-based systems to keep track of your games and increase portability. But they’re still a few steps from abandoning the hardware.