At a recent presentation I was asked what the next big thing was. I covered a few areas, like virtual reality, the death of linear television, citizen media, locality, and mobility.

Today, after a few of Nokia’s announcements, I’m reminded that these aren’t nearly as far away as I thought. As pointed out on GigaOm, the new N95 mobile wraps up almost all of these (bar VR) into one tiny bundle.

The N95 is a slider phone with a 2.6 inch QVGA screen, five megapixel camera, embedded GPS and the ability to automatically geo-tag photos for easy uploading to Flickr. It also has video-out to your television and will be connected via all types of networks, including HSDPA.

In other words, this pocketable device can download television shows from the Internet to view on the move, or plugged into your television.

It can record video with a quality at least as good as an everyday video recorder (some report as good as DVD, but it’s not quite).

It knows where on the planet it is located, using GPS, which currently means you take a photo and it can display it on a map (see Flickr’s new maps feature), but soon there will be a bunch of services providing information specific to your location; imagine a map of your current area with restaurant reviews, or movie times.

It can take photos that are of a better quality than the majority of cameras owned by people worldwide.

So in one fell swoop Nokia has knocked over four of my five predictions, which we’ll see emerging next year.

I know many of these features are already available. However, devices like the N95 will only make these features more mainstream. No doubt the device will be adopted mostly by the cyber-elite, but it won’t take long for these features to flow down to the rest of the world.

Update: And VR in a small form factor isn’t far away.