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Why the mouse? It should have a camera that follows your fingers and detects taps and gestures....
There is a mock up of a future computer that is your cellphone. When you get home, you dock it to a device that a monitor and other computer accessories are connected to.
That’s where I think it is headed to.
I’d be happy just to have XP again.
All it was was a pair of glasses and a pair of gloves.
Looking through the glasses you could see a screen as big as you wanted. With the gloves on you could type on a virtual keyboard, move a virtual mouse, do all the stuff you can do with an iPhone.
That's the computer I want.
Think smaller. Much smaller. Think nano.
The future computer will be nearly invisible.
I’ve actually seen a proof of concept of something like this on youtube. Not exactly what you describe, but it involved projecting holographic images from a wearable device. It was a while back and I don’t have a link, but maybe you could find it if you use the right search terms.
I see computers of the future as being similar to modern helmet-mounted heads-up displays used by our military pilots, only far more advanced and powerful in a computational sense. But instead of being integrated into a helmet, they’ll be integrated into an ordinary pair of glasses or sunglasses, or maybe even implanted somewhere in the human body... brain, eye, etc.
your close but actually somewhat off center. The actual path (IE what is happening) is called convergence. Interestingly this is a trend that has been happening for decades. To understand the past/present/future of convergence you need to understand moore’s law. Because of moore’s truism we are now at the cusp of combining the mobile computers you use daily into 1 system that you just use in many different ways.
OK so your now like dude WTF are you talking about. Do you have a cell phone? That’s actually a computer. You got a nook/kindle/ipad that’s a computer. Got a GPS system (yup its a computer) Did you go buy a google nest thermostat (yup that’s a computer)
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If you spent any brainpower following tech, you know that windows is going under a massive change. W10 unifies the kernel (the base executable that runs every thing) across all platforms. This means that your hardware horsepower will be the limiting factor for using programs or apps. Not the platform (phone tablet computer)
Intel has posted its roadmap to the 10mn process and the issues that popped up putting them 6 month behind schedule. What they have said is that the learning curve for the 7nm process, because of the issues with the 10nm process should be much better. Why does this matter????
Well its all about better faster cheaper.
We’re 18-24 months from your phone being your computer, which will actually the a watch on your wrist and with the correct google glasses will be your TV.
Where is the 4k screen?
Coming 2032
Personally my dream computer would be one that could interface with my optic nerve directly or be something unobtrusive such as a contact lens. The biggest barrier to contact lens displays is that it isn’t just putting an image on the lens but the ability to focus so if this technology ever gets off the ground it will require something much more advanced like an array of microlasers to directly stimulate the retina actively or have some kind of layer that can generate light in such a way that it is preprocessed to be exactly what the eye would have received had it received the light reflected from a real object. There is a company working on such a technology which Google has invested in.
I think “the cloud” will play an increasing role though we aren’t yet to the point where we can truly take advantage of it. We still have operating systems on are various devices and our profiles and settings aren’t all portable. The perfect cloud experience would be one where the device is only a window for the most part and everything else follows us regardless of what we are using whether it is a smart tv, phone, tablet, notebook, etc.
Wearable tech will be a growing thing but it wont be the Apple Watch that does it. Most people don’t like technology being a chore whether it be a kludgy set of glasses, a watch, or something that requires one speak like a robot or a movie announcer to get something done.
There is a lot of promise in machine brain interfaces and they hold the key to revolutionizing technology because I don’t think we really want to talk to our tech or wave our hands at it. What we really want is it to be an extension of us meaning that we want to think what we want and it just do it. Also even with a lot of VR stuff the ultimate VR would be to have the screen not be something requiring a screen at all but instead be something truly all in our head and that is the ultimate computer and one that would have matrix like potential.
I would prefer a virtual interface superimposed over and integrated with the real world.
Hmmm a holographic keyboard and machine that you can interact with.... I’ve see that in movies like Iron Man and Minority Report.
Anyhow, guys like Ray Kurzweil is saying our bodies will be linked to the web via nano-technology up to the Cloud (aka Space X).
I know DARPA has completed a heads up display that attaches to the cortex of your mind and is powered by kinetic movement of your spine.
Here is an article about it,
http://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-propose-cortical-modem-implant-to-give-you-terminator-vision/
