I’m not a futurist, yet I love the field; reading, researching, trying to understand, visualising, playing with ideas and verticals where these future technologies or services could be implemented.

I’m not going to say I’ve spotted hundreds of trends and made a fortune on my trend spotting skills. But I’ve spotted loads of interesting ideas, products and services that made it to the mainstream and have changed the way we navigate our daily lives.

One of the most profound things I was early on spotting was Instagram. As one of the first 50.000 users on the platform and was hooked from day one. So hooked, that I decided to launch my own company capitalising on the soon-to-be enormous ecosystem that now surrounds Instagram.

Long before Apple introduced Health-Kit or Research-Kit, I did some trend spotting on healthcare tech and wrote this article. I’ve been on a constant Apple watch, trying to see trends with stuff like a contextual OS, and I do still believe that this is something that will come sooner rather than later.

I decided to launch my own company solely capitalising on the soon to be enormous ecosystem that now surrounds Instagram.

Now something has been scratching my mind: Ever since the first story came out about a Florida-based company called Magic Leap, I’ve been navigating to their website more than once a week to just maybe spot some new released videos or photos from their stealth augmented reality device, without success.

Here are my thoughts on the next big frontier on human+computer interfaces.