The Consumer Electronics Show featured some very interesting coming technologies. One struck me… gesture technology.

As demonstrated, gesture technology enables a user to make hand motions in front of a properly equipped device to replace remote controls, or mouse movements, or keyboards and the like. In other words, make a specific hand motion in the air in order to advance to the next channel on your TV. Pretty cool.

This peek at the future, also prompts some reflection on the wider realm of human gestures. How many gestures do we make a day? For what purpose, and toward whom? How precise and careful are we about our gestures?

Seems like gestures are a pretty powerful way to communicate… powerful enough to now spawn a new technology. Perhaps we might want to be more thoughtful and considerate with all the gestures we make… even before the day when they activate technology.